Coronavirus Notebook: EMA Hones In On COVID-19 Activities, Russia’s Sputnik V Launches In India

A new study shows that the immune response to Pfizer/BioNTech’s Comirnaty in elderly people is 3.5-fold greater when the second dose is given after 12 weeks rather than three. The WHO has OKd the emergency use of a Chinese vaccine.

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Sinopharm's vaccine is among those OKd by the WHO • Source: Alamy

The European Medicines Agency is taking further action to streamline activities carried out by the EU’s medicines regulatory network to allow experts to deal with a rising number of assessment procedures related to COVID-19 products.

With the “very active pipeline” of upcoming coronavirus vaccines and therapeutics, a number of ongoing procedures, and the rollout of...

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