This is one more step towards a vaccine against the coronavirus.

The Pfizer and BioNTech laboratories announced Tuesday in a press release that they had filed a conditional authorization request with the European Medicines Agency to be able to market their vaccine in Europe.

The vaccine would be 95% effective according to these laboratories. 

The Pfizer / BioNTech alliance announced on Tuesday that it had filed the application for conditional authorization of its Covid-19 vaccine in the EU with the European Medicines Agency (EMA), saying it hoped for its distribution by the end of the month.

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The "formal request" to the EMA was filed on Monday, German laboratory BioNTech, which is associated with US giant Pfizer, said in a statement, after large-scale test results showed 95% effectiveness of their vaccine.