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The Head of EMA Communication Department Marie-Agnes Heine announces that the Human Medicines Committee has "recommended a conditionnal marketing authorisation for the first Covid-19 vaccine for the EU market". SOUNDBITE
Images outside of Pfizer's factory in Puurs after the European Medicines Agency (EMA) approves the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. IMAGES
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the WHO has approved the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use -- the first Chinese jab to receive the WHO's green light. The UN health agency has signed off on the two-dose vaccine, which is already being deployed in dozens of countries around the world. The WHO has already given emergency use listing to the vaccines being made by Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, Johnson and Johnson, and the AstraZeneca jab being produced at separate sites in India and in South Korea. SOUNDBITE
The European Medicines Agency approves the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus jab for 12- to 15-year-olds, the first vaccine to get the green light for children in the EU. SOUNDBITE
The EU has concluded a deal with BioNTech/Pfizer for up to 1.8 billion extra doses of its Covid-19 vaccine, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen says at a media conference in Porto, Portugal. SOUNDBITE
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announces that the EU has struck a deal to double its supply of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19 to a total 600 million doses. SOUNDBITE
The first doses of the Covid-19 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are delivered to the Spallanzani hospital in Rome, escorted by the Carabinieri, to be administered from Sunday onwards to doctors, nurses and other health workers. IMAGES
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