Coronavirus Notebook: Pfizer/BioNTech On Plans For EU Vaccine Rollout, COVAX Strikes New Deals

The latest round-up from the Pink Sheet of developments relating to COVID-19.

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The EU has its first COVID-19 vaccine • Source: Shutterstock

Approvals are coming thick and fast for Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine, Comirnaty. The COVAX program is working to ensure countries have equitable access to vaccines. And ministers from EU member states have laid out a set of proposals for strengthening the bloc’s response and resilience to ongoing and future health threats. In the meantime, a new global consortium, GTEC, is looking at how the T cell response can help in diagnosing COVID-19 and assessing immunity as new vaccines come onstream.

Following its approval by the European Commission yesterday, Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine, Comirnaty (also known as BNT162b2), now has a conditional...

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