Coronavirus: Europe approved Moderna’s vaccine | S …

The vaccine, which has the advantage of being able to be stored at -20 ° C, “provides us with another tool to overcome the current emergency“EMA Executive Director Emer Cooke said in a statement.

The news, at a time when the contagion curve is increasing day by day, along with the restrictions, is seen as a beacon of hope in different parts of the continent.

The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, also welcomed the novelty and said that it was “good news for our efforts to bring more covid-19 vaccines to Europeans “. This is the second formula approved by the European regulatory body which, on December 21, gave the green light to Pfizer’s vaccine.

“We are giving Europeans safe and effective anti-covid-19 vaccines. We have just authorized Moderna’s vaccine, the second approved in the EU,” the president tweeted, noting that the bloc has obtained 2 billion doses of potential vaccines, “more than enough to protect us all.”

In November of last year, Moderna announced that his vaccine was nearly 95% effective and showed no adverse effects in those vaccinated, so on the 30 of the same month he submitted the corresponding authorization requests. in the United States, where it already applied, and the European Union, among other regions.

Since the start of the pandemic, Europe has already recorded more than 27.5 million cases and 596,000 deaths from coronavirus. The outbreak of infections, fueled by the new variant detected in the UK, has prompted some EU countries to expand restrictions, including Germany and Denmark.

The vaccination campaigns, which began on December 27, are progressing more slowly than in the United States, Great Britain or Israel, and have caused, in some cases such as in France, a great controversy.