The Spanish Health Minister, Salvador Ilya, believes that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) will most likely authorise the vaccine against the coronavirus from Pfizer on Dec. 29.
The minister also added that the vaccine developed by Moderna might be approved on Jan. 12.
“I can announce today, although it may change, that by Dec. 29 at the latest, EMA will meet to give its assessment on the Pfizer vaccine … the opinion on Moderna vaccine will be announced at the latest on Jan. 12,” Ilya said at a forum.
The minister believes that the decisions on both vaccines will be positive.
Also vaccination in Spain, as well as in other EU countries, will begin in early January, allowing all Spaniards to be vaccinated by late September 2021.
The minister recalled that within the framework of the EU distribution system, Spain will receive 140 million doses of vaccines for its citizens, and thus Madrid will be able to share with other countries that “will be in need.”
The European Commission has so far signed six deals to purchase potential coronavirus vaccine with AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer/BioNTech, Sanofi-GSK, CureVac and Moderna.
