EMA recommends approval of Valneva’s Covid-19 vaccine

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The relevant committee recommended the vaccine for use as a primary vaccination in people aged 18 to 50 years. It would be the first inactivated vaccine to be approved in the EU.

Biotech company Valneva can expect approval of its Covid-19 vaccine in the European Union after a long wait. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) gave the green light for the French-Austrian company’s vaccine on Thursday. The relevant committee recommended the vaccine for use as a primary vaccination in people aged 18 to 50 years. The final decision rests with the European Commission. However, their consent is considered a formality.

In the European Union, it would be the sixth approved Covid 19 vaccine and the first so-called dead vaccine. The vaccine contains the inactivated Sars-CoV-2 virus and two intensifiers. The mRNA vaccines from Biontech/Pfizer and Moderna, the two vector vaccines from AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson(J&J) and the protein-based vaccine from Novavax are already on the market.

Termination of pre-purchase agreement threatened

Valneva had only recently questioned the future of his inactivated vaccine. Because the European Commission had announced that it might terminate the advance purchase agreement for the vaccine due to delays in the approval process.

Valneva’s Covid vaccine VLA2001 is the only candidate whole-virus (‘killed’) vaccine developed in Europe. Valneva follows an approach that has been tried and tested for many decades. All of the dead virus is presented to the body. Thus, the immune system has to deal with all parts of the pathogen. Production takes place in Scotland and Sweden, but according to the company, most of the development work was done via Vienna. VLA2001 has already been approved in Great Britain and Bahrain and since May 13 also in the United Arab Emirates.

(APA/Reuters)

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