AstraZeneca vaccine hopeful to be green-lighted by EU in January


  • World
  • Wednesday, 13 Jan 2021

BRUSSELS, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Tuesday it had received the application for conditional marketing authorization for a COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, and it could make a recommendation by the end of January through an accelerated procedure.

EMA said in a statement that an opinion on the marketing authorization could be issued during a meeting of EMA's scientific committee for human medicines scheduled for Jan. 29.

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