Coronavirus Notebook: Richer Countries Urged To Pay ‘Fair Share’ Of Vaccine & Drug Financing, EU Assesses Comirnaty Boosters

EFPIA has welcomed an evidence-based report on the regulatory flexibilities used in Europe during the pandemic and how they could be further employed in future. The EMA’s drug safety committee is looking at more reports of menstrual disorders with mRNA vaccines.

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More funding is needed to tackle COVID-19 in lower-income countries • Source: Alamy

The Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator has called on higher-income countries to pay their “fair share” of the funding that is still needed to procure COVID-19 vaccines, medicines and other medical products for use in low- and middle-income countries.

“With a significant proportion of the global population still unable to get vaccinated, tested or treated, US$16bn in grant funding...

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