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The BioNTech and Pfizer vaccine could receive approval from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on December 23, according to the
Bild
and
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
newspapers published on Tuesday
.
Asked about it at a press conference, the German Minister of Health, Jens Spahn, assured that it would be "good news" and that it had that date because he had read it in the press, it seemed "plausible" and because it was just before Christmas.
According to the daily
Bild
, Chancellor Angela Merkel's services are also putting pressure on the EMP and the European Union behind the scenes to speed up the authorization process, to have a decision by December 23 and not on December 29, the date initially given. informs Afp.
The Netherlands-based AEM deliberates on the authorizations of several vaccines against covid-19.
The agency was the target of a cyber attack last week, during which documents related to Pfizer and BioNTech were hacked.
From this Tuesday, the German authorities are prepared to launch the campaign, with a vaccination program that will start with health personnel and the population at risk.
Germany's irritation is further increased by the fact that the vaccine was developed by a national company and that the country is hit hard by the second wave of the pandemic, having weathered the first wave relatively well last spring.
"It is not conceivable that we have to wait until January to have an authorization of a vaccine conceived in Germany,"
lamented an official of the liberal party FDP, a member of the opposition.
In the last 24 hours, 14,432 cases and 500 deaths were registered in Germany, according to the national health surveillance authority (RKI) on Tuesday.
The number of cases in a day reached 30,000 people last week, a record.
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