Coronavirus: WHO approves emergency use of BioNTech-Pfizer COVID vaccine
01 January 2021 |
12:22 pm
The World Health Organization has granted its first emergency use validation to BioNTech-Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine. That should allow countries to speed up regulatory approval.
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