Uniindia: Geneva, Jan 1 (UNI) The World Health Organization has issued an emergency use validation for the vaccine against the coronavirus developed by the Pfizer and BioNTech companies, the first one since the start of the pandemic.
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Over the holidays, the World Health Organization approved the emergency use of the Comirnaty COVID-19 mRNA vaccine.
Having been the first vaccine to receive approval by the FDA, the BioNTech/
Pfizer Inc. was also the first to receive WHO emergency validation.
The validation is significant as it now allows countries to accelerate approval processes to begin administering the vaccine.
As a result, UNICEF and the Pan-American Health Organization can also begin to procure the vaccine for distribution.
The WHO’s review of the vaccine found the vaccine to meet the WHO safety and efficacy standards.