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Cybercriminals have gained access to regulations on the registration of the American Modern coronavirus vaccine, Reuters reported. Two more drugs were previously reported stolen.
During the recent cyberattack on the European Medicines Agency (EMA), hackers, in particular, stole data on the coronavirus vaccine. American by Moderna. It was previously reported that they gained access to information about American Pfizer Inc. vaccines and German BioNTech. Reported by Reuters.
According to the agency, the documents were related to preliminary negotiations on the candidate to clinical evaluation Modern vaccines. However, the company said they did not include information about the participants in the vaccine studies.
There is no information that any of the drug’s study participants can be identified, the company noted.
The EU Medicines Agency is now the body responsible, among other things, for studying data on trials of emerging coronavirus vaccines in the EU, it also gives its opinion on the medicines under study and recommends them for use in the internal market of the EU.
An outbreak of coronavirus infection began in late 2019 in China. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the spread of the coronavirus a pandemic.
According to the WHO, as of December 8, there are 52 COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers in the world that are candidates for clinical evaluation of the drug. 162 companies are conducting preclinical trials. The American company Moderna reported that the effectiveness of its vaccine against COVID-19 was 94.1% and against the severe form of coronavirus infection, 100%. Test results for Pfizer’s BNT162b2 vaccine, developed with BioNTech, showed a vaccine effectiveness of 95%.
The director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, called the Pfizer vaccine “very promising”.
Pfizer and BioNTech expect to produce up to 50 million doses of vaccines in 2020 and up to 1.3 billion by the end of 2021. Pfizer has already sold about 82% of the doses.
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