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Quote from The Evening Standard: Britain could get a fourth Covid-19 vaccine within as little as four weeks, a leading expert told the Evening Standard today.
Professor Paul Heath, chief investigator for the Novavax jab trial in the UK, said that if approved by regulators it would help keep up the “momentum” in the nation’s world-leading vaccine roll-out.
“The regulator will do a very detailed and thorough review and will decide in good time,” he said. “I would hope it would be in the spring, possibly end of April.”
Professor Heath, a consultant in paediatric infectious diseases at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, believes the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, which has been using a fast-track “rolling review” process, now has nearly all the data it needs to make an approval decision.
Ministers have ordered 60 million doses of the Novavax vaccine. Trials have found it to be 86 per cent effective against the Kent variant of Covid-19 and 96 per cent against the Wuhan strain.
It will be manufactured at the Fujifilm plant in Billingham in the North-East.
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Good news for the UK's vaccine roll out.
No doubt the EU apparatchiks are getting ready to bad mouth this as well.
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