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A first as Covid-19 jab gets greenlight from WHO

Pfizer vaccine

The vaccine was found to have met the must-have criteria for safety and efficacy set out by WHO.

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By  Angela Oketch

Reporter

Nation Media Group

What you need to know:

  • It enables Unicef and the Pan-American Health Organization to procure the vaccine for distribution to countries in need.
  • Regulatory experts reviewed the data on the vaccine’s safety, efficacy and quality.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has listed the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use.

This makes the Comirnaty Covid-19 mRNA vaccine the first to receive emergency validation from WHO since the outbreak began a year ago.

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