Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine approved in UK; Russia suffers worst day of record daily Covid deaths; US reported over 100,000 cases every day in November
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After Liese expressed his concern, the European Union’s drug regulator said its longer vaccine approval process was safer. Asked about the UK’s approval of the Pfizer vaccine, the European Medicines Agency said:
EMA considers that the conditional marketing authorisation is the most appropriate regulatory mechanism for use in the current pandemic emergency.
Poland, as expected, has now recorded more than 1m cases, according to data from its health ministry, as the country grapples with a shortage of doctors and medical supplies amid its second wave.
Poland has now confirmed 1,013,747 cases and 18,208 deaths, the data showed.
