Exclusive - EU decision on Russia's Sputnik V shot 'impossible' this year - source

FILE PHOTO: Doses of the Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are seen at a vaccination centre in Zilina, Slovakia June 7, 2021. REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa

NEW YORK (Reuters): The EU drug regulator is unlikely to decide whether to approve Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine until at least the first quarter of 2022 because some data needed for the review is still missing, a source with knowledge of the matter said.

“An EMA decision by the end of the year is now absolutely impossible,” the source said, referring to the European Medicines Agency.