The EU’s medicines watchdog on Thursday approved Valneva’s anti-Covid jab, Europe’s sixth green-lit coronavirus vaccine, which uses more traditional technology than others on the market which the firm hopes will reduce jab hesitancy.
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“After a thorough evaluation, EMA’s human medicines committee concluded by consensus that the data on the vaccine were robust and met the EU criteria for efficacy, safety and quality,” it added. The vaccine can be stored at fridge temperature, meaning it can be used in countries where storage at very low temperatures is not available.
“The most common ones were tenderness or pain at the injection site, tiredness, headache, muscle pain and nausea or vomiting,” it said.Last month the European Commission said it intended to axe an agreement to buy Valneva’s vaccine as it had not yet received marketing authorisation. Valneva’s vaccine now joins jabs by Pfizer and Moderna, which use messenger RNA technology, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson, which use viral vector technology, and Novavax, which is based on a spike protein produced in a laboratory.
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