Expected vaccination by 2020? Germany urges EU to speed up vaccine approval

BEIJING, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- The German government recently expressed its dissatisfaction with the slow approval process for vaccines developed by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in cooperation with Pfizer of the United States and German bio-new technology companies, and urged the European Union to speed up the pace of approval of vaccines, euronews reported.
Health Minister Peter Spann said he hoped the European Medicines Agency would speed up its review of data on the new crown vaccine. Mr Spann is optimistic that the Pfizer vaccine could be granted an EU emergency use authorization next week.
the same time,
European Union President Von der Leyen said on December 15th that the European Union region is expected to start to be vaccinated against new crowns by 2020. The European Medicines Agency has accelerated the approval process for the vaccine and expects to approve an emergency use authorization for the Pfizer vaccine by Christmas.
according to
commitment of the European Union to the new crown vaccine approval schedule, the German Ministry of Health said that Germany plans to start the new crown vaccination work on December 26, 2020.
to prevent and control the outbreak, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has previously made a resolution to upgrade the current "partial city" to a "hard city" from December 16, 2020 to January 10, 2021.
On the other hand, Italian Prime Minister Antonio Conte reiterated that not only will the Christmas and New Year period not relax the outbreak prevention and control, but will also take further restrictions, and said that at all costs to consolidate the results of the fight against the epidemic, with a short period of time in exchange for permanent security.
said the government has drawn up an epidemic prevention plan for
New Year on the advice of national science experts. He reiterated his call to the public, during the holiday season, try not to receive non-resident relatives and friends at home, should make efforts to avoid risks to relatives, and urged the public to abide by the rules of epidemic prevention, conscientiously fulfill the responsibility and obligations of epidemic prevention, and actively participate in the new crown vaccination.