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July 27, 2021 Addis Ababa 27 July 2021 This statement is issued in follow-up to the meeting held between Dr John Nkengasong, Director of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Ambassador Birgitte Markussen, Head of European Union Delegation to the African Union, which took place on 22 July related to the launching of the EU Digital COVID Certificate and the broader AU-EU partnership fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Both sides agreed to provide the following clarifications notably in the context of ongoing efforts by the AU and EU on vaccines distribution and production on the African continent: With respect to the Covishield vaccine, distributed through the COVAX mechanism, the vaccine meets all the requirements of the World Health Organisation and was one of the first available candidates considered safe and efficacious through the World Health Organisation’s Emergency Use Listing (EUL) process.

Which vaccines have the WHO nod?

These include Sinovac and Sinopharm, the latest Covid-19 vaccines to be included. The EUL currently has seven Covid-19 vaccines approved for emergency use, with Pfizer-BioNTech being the first to be accepted in December 2020, followed by AstraZeneca and Covishield in February this year, Johnson & Johnson in March and Moderna in April. In May, the WHO added Sinopharm to the EUL listing – the first Chinese-made vaccine to be included – followed by Sinovac in June. “The EUL is a procedure for assessing unlicensed vaccines, therapeutics and in-vitro diagnostics during public health emergencies with the ultimate goal of expediting the availability of these products to people who need them.

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