Europe's medicines regulator is expecting to receive a formal Covid-19 vaccine application from Johnson & Johnson in the next few days. "Probably as early as next week," Marco Cavaleri, chair of the European Medicines Agency's vaccine evaluation team, told Reuters today.
He noted that the EMA has been conducting a rolling review of the vaccine for sometime. "Mid-March is reasonable for the EMA decision," he said.
Unlike the other coronavirus vaccines, Johnson & Johnson's only requires one dose. The EMA, Mr Cavaleri added, has been in contact to date with about 50 pharmaceutical companies working on Covid vaccines.
Regarding the Russia's Sputnik V vaccine, he said the agency is in constant contact with the company producing it. "There is a