The license for extra vaccines towards SARS-CoV-2 but in addition for therapeutic approaches to forestall COVID-19 is barely a matter of time, in line with Elena Panagiotopoulou, Deputy Director of the Well being Ministry’s Pharmaceutical Companies, who added that Cyprus participates within the procedures of direct provide and as quickly as these are licensed it’s going to acquired them instantly.
Requested in regards to the vaccines, she mentioned that the Valneva vaccine is predicted to be licensed in December 2021 and added that it know-how is much like the Chinese language vaccines of Sinopharm and Sinovac.
She additionally referred to a capsule by MSD towards Covid-19 the analysis of which can start on 31 October.
Moreover the European Medicines Company EMA has begun an analysis of a request to increase using Covid-19 vaccines of BioTech/Pfizer, Comirnaty to kids aged 5-11.