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Coronavirus Notebook: UK Approves Novavax Vaccine, EMA Updates On Progress With Other Candidates

 
• By Ian Schofield

With the approval of Nuvaxovid, the UK and the EU now each have five COVID-19 vaccines at their disposal. Meanwhile, the European Medicines Agency has given an estimated timeline for the approval of candidate vaccines from Valneva and Sanofi Pasteur, and is looking at which therapeutics could be effective against the Omicron variant. Russia says its Sputnik V vaccine has now been granted full regulatory approval there.

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More COVID-19 vaccine candidates are in the pipeline • Source: Shutterstock

This week saw the UK regulator, the MHRA, issue a conditional marketing authorization (CMA) for a fifth COVID-19 vaccine, Novavax, Inc.’s Nuvaxovid. Unlike other vaccines on the market, Nuvaxovid is based on recombinant protein-based technology.

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