Tag: BioNTech
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BioNTech to request approval of COVID-19 vaccine for children over 12
German vaccine manufacturer BioNTech is to request the authorisation of its COVID-19 vaccine for children from the age of 12 in the European Union, it announced on Thursday. The request would probably be filed in the next few days with the European Medicines Agency (EMA), a spokesperson told doa. The news magazine Der Spiegel had…
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Pfizer/BioNTech confirm extra 100m vaccine doses to EU in 2021
Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE announced on Monday they would supply an additional 100 million doses of COMIRNATY, the companies’ COVID-19 vaccine, to the 27 European Union member states in 2021. The agreement followed the European Commission’s decision to exercise its option to purchase an additional 100 million doses under its expanded advanced purchase agreement,…
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UK approves Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for use from next week
The United Kingdom (UK) regulator, the Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has granted a temporary authorization for emergency use for the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine produced by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech. This constitutes the first Emergency Use Authorization following a worldwide Phase 3 trial of the vaccine to help fight the pandemic. Pfizer and…
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Pfizer, BioNTech seek EU’s conditional approval for COVID-19 vaccines
Pfizer and BioNTech said they had submitted their COVID-19 vaccine to the European Medicines Agency for conditional approval. The companies said this in a statement on Tuesday, aiming to make their drug available in Europe by the end of the year. The partners, a U.S. pharma giant and a small German biotechnology firm specialising in…
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Twitter accounts of founders of BioNTech vaccine coy fake
Twitter accounts purported to be those of Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci, the founders of the German firm BioNTech, which raised hopes of a vaccine for the novel coronavirus last week are fake, BioNTech said on Monday. It made the announcement through its own Twitter account. The company said it had asked Twitter to delete…