German regulator expects EU approval of AstraZeneca with no age restrictions

The head of Germany’s vaccine regulator expects that the European Union will approve AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine without any age restrictions, he told a news conference on Friday.

The bloc’s drugs regulator, the European Medicines Agency (EMA), is due to issue a recommendation on AstraZeneca’s vaccine, co-developed by Oxford University, later today.

Klaus Cichutek, president of the Paul Ehrlich Institute, said European regulators were in a position to approve the vaccine without restrictions with the warning that the available data for older age groups was weaker.

via Reuters