{"id":181089,"date":"2022-06-24T15:37:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T07:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=181089"},"modified":"2022-06-24T15:37:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T07:37:23","slug":"covid-19-eu-watchdog-approves-valneva-anti-covid-jab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=181089","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: EU watchdog approves Valneva anti-Covid jab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2022\/06\/24\/image-68337-1656042236.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0 THE HAGUE, June 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The EU&#8217;s medicines watchdog on Thursday approved Valneva&#8217;s anti-Covid jab, Europe&#8217;s sixth green-lit coronavirus vaccine, which uses more traditional technology than others on the market which the firm hopes will reduce jab hesitancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; The French-Austrian drug maker&#8217;s jab is the sixth vaccine to be approved within the 27-nation bloc and contains inactivated particles of the original coronavirus strain that cannot cause an infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8220;EMA has recommended granting a marketing authorisation for Covid-19 vaccine Valneva for use in the primary vaccination of people from 18 to 50 years of age,&#8221; the Amsterdam-based agency said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8220;After a thorough evaluation, EMA&#8217;s human medicines committee (CHMP) concluded by consensus that the data on the vaccine were robust and met the EU criteria for efficacy, safety and quality,&#8221; the Amsterdam-based agency said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Last month the European Commission said it intended to axe an agreement to buy Valneva&#8217;s vaccine as it had not yet received marketing authorisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 The EU&#8217;s executive arm had signed a deal to buy up to 60 million doses of the VLA2001 vaccine in 2022 and 2023. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 THE HAGUE, June 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The EU&#8217;s medicines watchdog on Thursday approved Valneva&#8217;s anti-Covid jab, Europe&#8217;s sixth green-lit coronavirus vaccine, which uses more traditional technology than others on the market which the firm hopes will reduce jab hesitancy. &nbsp;&nbsp; The French-Austrian drug maker&#8217;s jab is the sixth vaccine to be approved within the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":181092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181089"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181093,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181089\/revisions\/181093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/181092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}