United Kingdom has become the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for mass vaccination.
Leaping ahead of the United States to become the first Western country to allow mass inoculations against a disease that has killed more than 1.4 million people worldwide.
Still no country until wednesday on 2nd december had authorized a fully tested coronavirus vaccine; Russia and China approved vaccines without waiting for large-scale efficacy tests.
British and European regulators lean more heavily on the companies’ own analyses, studying reports from vaccine makers and, unless there are anomalies, grounding their decisions on those documents. And while American regulators are waiting for a Dec. 10 meeting of outside experts to make a decision, Britain’s committee of specialists met as needed for a total of 40 hours before the decision on Wednesday.
The first doses of the vaccine would arrive in the coming days, said the
company. The UK has bought 40m doses of the vaccine, which has been
shown to have 95% efficacy in its final trials.
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