European regulator gives approval for Moderna vaccine

A nurse is vaccinated against Covid-19 with Moderna's vaccine on December 21 in Hartford, United States.

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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) gives its approval on Wednesday for the use of the Moderna vaccine in Europe.

The agency met on Wednesday, for the second time this week, as the slowness of the vaccination process in EU countries is increasingly criticized.

The Moderna vaccine is taken in two doses, a few weeks apart, like the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine.

But Moderna's formula can be stored at -20 ° C, and not -70 ° C like the remedy from Pfizer, which forced the group to develop specific containers for transport.

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