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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12712

5 May 2021
Contents Publication in full By article 12 / 28
EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19 / Health
European Medicines Agency starts to review vaccine developed by Chinese company Sinovac
Brussels, 04/05/2021 (Agence Europe)

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced on Tuesday 4 May that it had initiated a rolling review of the Covid-19 vaccine that has been developed by the Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac.

The decision, it explained in a statement, was prompted by preliminary results from laboratory and clinical studies that suggests the vaccine in question “triggers the production of antibodies” against SARS-CoV-2 and “may help protect against the disease”.

In order to assess the...

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