UK to give emergency approval to any Covid vaccine breakthrough
by Sarah Boseley Health editor from Science | The Guardian on (#57EQN)
Legal change will enable population to be immunised as quickly as possible
Any new and effective Covid vaccine will be given emergency approval for use in the UK and an expanded workforce will be trained to give the injections to immunise as much of the population as possible quickly, the government has said.
A change in the law will allow the UK regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), to grant temporary approval for a vaccine from October, before it has been given a licence by the European authorities, which would be the normal procedure. The UK will be out of the EU from January and will approve drugs and vaccines without Brussels' involvement.
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