Russia and China have not requested authorisation from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for their COVID-19 vaccines and the agency is not under political pressure to speed up vaccine approvals, the regulator’s chief said in remarks published on Wednesday.
“For the time being they have not sought authorisation for their vaccines. If they do, we will study the data,”
EMA’s Executive Director Emer Cooke told Italian daily la Repubblica, when asked about the Chinese and Russian vaccines.
China has approved three vaccine candidates developed by Sinovac and state-owned Sinopharm for emergency use.