Oxford vaccine unlikely to be rolled out in EU in January as EMA look for more data on ‘quality’ of vaccine. THE European roll-out of the Oxford University-AstraZeneca vaccine is unlikely to take place in January, according to an official at the European Medicines Agency (EMA). “At the moment, AstraZeneca has only provided data on their clinical trials to the European Medicines Agency,” he said. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom plans to roll out the Oxford- AstraZeneca vaccine from 4 January. More like a standard vaccine, the Oxford- AstraZeneca vaccine will be considerably easier to administer as it does not require very cold storage as is the case with the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna jabs, which are new mRNA vaccines.

Source: Irish Independent December 29, 2020 13:18 UTC