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HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-VACCINES-EMA: EU hopes to deliver COVID vaccine opinion before Christmas

DUBLIN (Reuters) - European Medicines Agency (EMA) hopes to be able to issue favorable scientific opinion before Christmas on COVID-19 vaccine candidates which will have been submitted to it, its executive director said on Wednesday.
"If all goes well we very much hope to be able to have a positive opinion before Christmas", said Emer Cooke in an interview with Irish radio RTE.
After the American laboratories Pfizer and Moderna, the British AstraZeneca on Monday published favorable clinical trial results, bringing to three the number of vaccines likely to be authorized in the coming weeks.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union has struck a deal for up to 160 million doses of U.S. firm Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA)'s COVID -19 vaccine candidate, the head of the European Commission said on Tuesday, taking the EU 's potential stock of COVID -19 shots to nearly 2 billion.
Cited by the Irish Independent on Tuesday, Emer Cooke said the EMA's goal was to give a favorable recommendation at the same time as the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA); however, it is counting on a decision in mid-December concerning Pfizer's experimental vaccine.
"What we are hearing right now are the results of clinical trials and they are very positive. But until we look at the raw data and are sure what is being displayed matches the in reality, we will not be able to recommend it for the general public in Europe, "said Emer Cooke.
"Let me say that an efficiency of 90% is very, very good for a vaccine, so the possibility that this will be confirmed in practice by what we will see in the file makes us very optimistic," he said. she added in response to a question about the test results of the three laboratories.
(Conor Humphries, French version Jean-Stéphane Brosse and Marc Angrand, edited by Jean-Michel Bélot)
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