The first vaccine against the new coronavirus approved by the World Health Organization for emergency use is Comirnaty COVID-19 mRNA manufactured by Pfizer / BioNTech, the WHO has announced.
The World Health Organization announced the state of emergency on Thursday, as 2020 came to an end. The WHO (Emergency Use Listing – EUL) list will enable countries to expedite their own regulatory approval of the vaccine and allow UNICEF and the Pan American Health Organization to distribute it, the WHO said.
‘This is a very positive step towards global access to [Covid]-19 vaccines, ” Dr Mariângela Simão, WHO’s Assistant Director-General for Access to Medicines and Health Products, said in a statement. She added it “An even bigger global effort” is necessary to provide with sufficient stock to meet the needs of “Priority populations everywhere,” however.
The WHO is “Work day and night to evaluate other vaccines that have reached safety and efficacy standards,” said Simão and urged other developers to “Come forward for review and review.”
The first vaccine against Covid-19 in the world was in fact registered by Russia, which EUL requested at the end of October for the WHO’s Sputnik V stab. That certification is still pending.
Pfizer’s vaccine was first approved for emergency use in the US on December 11. Moderna’s vaccine followed a week later.
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