EU to speed approval of variant-modified coronavirus vaccines - paper


  • World
  • Sunday, 14 Feb 2021

FILE PHOTO: European Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides speaks during a news conference on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine export transparency, in Brussels, Belgium January 29, 2021. REUTERS/Johanna Geron/Pool

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Union will fast track approvals of coronavirus vaccines adapted to combat mutations, the bloc's Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said in a newspaper interview on Sunday.

"We have now decided that a vaccine that has been improved by the manufacturer on the basis of the previous vaccine to combat new mutations no longer has to go through the entire approval process," she told Bavaria's Augsburger Allgemeine.

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