Prognosis
EU Leaders Vent at Drugs Regulator Over Slow Vaccine Approval
- Bloc’s executive arm wants 70% of adults vaccinated by summer
- EU seeks to speed up inoculations amid new virus variants
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A group of European Union leaders pressed the bloc’s drugs regulator to green light coronavirus vaccines faster, after its executive arm recommended a target for inoculating at least 70% of the region’s adult population by summer.
The EU’s 27 government heads must “send out a strong signal to the European Medicines Agency on Thursday to ensure the approval procedure for vaccine candidates is as efficient as possible,” the leaders of Greece, the Czech Republic, Denmark and Austria said in a joint letter to summit chair Charles Michel. He will host a Jan. 21 EU video conference on the pandemic.