Earlier, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was approved for emergency use in the United States by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), along with the Moderna vaccine. Currently, multiple prominent political figures have publicly received a coronavirus vaccine.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday issued its first ever emergency validation, this for the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, making it the first vaccine to receive the agency’s emergency approval since the beginning of the pandemic.
According to WHO, the vaccine met its ‘must-have’ criteria for safety and efficacy, while the potential risks of using the new drug compound to address COVID-19 are offset by the benefits.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was also the first to be approved for emergency use in the United States. Shortly after that, an emergency use authorisation was also issued for a Moderna vaccine, prompting many political figures to publicly take the vaccines.
Earlier, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was also approved in the United Kingdom, the European Union, Canada, Israel and other countries.
In Russia, a massive vaccination against the coronavirus has been ongoing, with the use of Sputnik V, the world’s first registered COVID-19 vaccine.
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage across the globe, the United States remains the nation most affected by the pandemic, registering over 19.8 million cases and at least 344,000 related deaths.
In December, a new variant of COVID, said to be more contagious than other virus strains, was discovered in the United Kingdom. Despite dozens of countries swiftly suspending travel with the UK over concerns about the new variant, it has now been identified in Germany, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, Canada, the United States and many other countries.
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