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AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Data ‘Not Sufficient’ For Approval In Switzerland

Swiss Update Comes As EMA Announces Rolling Review Of Novavax Vaccine

 
• By Ian Schofield and Maureen Kenny

Switzerland's medicines agency says it wants to see more data on AZD1222 before it can approve the vaccine. Also, a rolling review of Novavax's NVX-CoV2373, yet another COVID‑19 vaccine, is under way at the European Medicines Agency. 

Four transparent glass vials with a test COVID-19 vaccine, named AZD1222, and a glass syringe with yellow piston on a blue surface and with blue background
The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is under scrutiny again • Source: Shutterstock

In yet another twist to the ongoing debate over the Oxford/AstraZeneca PLC COVID-19 vaccine, the Swiss regulatory agency has said that the data the company has submitted so far “are not yet sufficient to permit authorization.”

In other COVID vaccine-related news, the European Medicines Agency has announced that its human medicines committee, the CHMP, has started a rolling review of NVX-CoV2373, a COVID‑19 vaccine being developed...

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