Takeda’s head of multi-country organization, India and Southeast Asia, Dion Warren, tells Scrip how things are shaping for Qdenga in Brazil’s public vaccination program and outlines the contours, including pricing aspects, of the deal with Biological E for the dengue vaccine. The US IND application for the jab is still open.

CDC’s advisory committee also approves a VFC program update allowing for the rare, off-label use of tetanus toxoid- and diphtheria toxoid-containing vaccine in young children, and plans to move up timing of its COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for the 2024-2025 formulation.

The European Medicines Agency said it was possible to use immunobridging studies to authorize COVID-19 vaccines now that a number of COVID-19 vaccines authorized in the EU are proven to be safe and effective and can be used as comparators in trials.

Vidprevtyn, from Sanofi/GSK, and drugs from Amicus and Y-mAbs are nearing the end of the European Medicines Agency review cycle. They are among the products scheduled for discussion this week by the CHMP, the EMA committee that decides whether drugs should be granted pan-EU approval.