Last month, Pfizer touted its coronavirus vaccine as a drug that offers “robust immune responses” to the disease with no serious side effects.
US drugmaker Pfizer has stated that new EU rules about the movement of goods across borders hamper production of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine.
Pfizer’s plant in Belgium currently supplies more than 70 countries with its vaccine.
“Ultimately what we would like our colleagues to do is to focus on making and distributing the vaccine”, Hendrikse stressed, referring to the “particularly complex” process of obtaining all the raw materials needed for the inoculation.
The remarks come after Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla underscored that approval of the pharmaceutical giant’s coronavirus vaccine for children was a matter of “urgency”.
Family doctor Elke Happich prepares a syringe containing a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine to vaccinate patients at their homes in Cologne, Germany
He referred to the latest trial data pertaining to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which suggests the drug is safe and can effectively protect adolescents against COVID-19. About 2,250 children in the US aged between 12 and 15 took part in the said trial.
He spoke after media reports said the EU and the UK were working to “ensure a reciprocally beneficial relationship between the UK and EU on COVID-19” amid the Brussels-London dispute over vaccine export controls.
Under the new possible agreement, the EU is expected to remove its export ban on the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to the UK and the UK will agree to provide the bloc with the Dutch-made Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.
The reports followed Brussels issuing new regulations banning exports to countries that have high vaccine coverage or limit their own exports. The UK has given out more vaccine shots per 100 residents that the EU27 on average and its contract with UK-Swedish biotechnology company AstraZeneca insists the vaccines made at UK plants should be supplied to Britain first.
A number of countries earlier suspended the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine after reports the jab could cause blood clotting. The World Health Organisation (WHO) reiterated its recommendations late last week to use the AstraZeneca shot to obtain immunity from the coronavirus, suggesting that the vaccine’s benefits probably outweigh its risks.
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