|
 Dominique Le Guludec, president of the French HAS regulatory body,
told LCI TV that France could approve the J&J COVID-19 vaccine by
Friday or Saturday this week, once it got approval from the European
Union's EMA drugs regulator.
Europe's drugs regulator said last month that it could issue an
opinion by mid-March on whether to approve drugmaker Johnson &
Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine under a speedy review.
The U.S. government authorized Johnson & Johnson's single-dose
COVID-19 vaccine at the end of February, enabling millions more
Americans to be vaccinated in the coming weeks and setting the
vaccine up for additional approvals around the world.
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 Thousands of people across
France flocked to vaccination centres on Sunday
as the government stepped up inoculations
against the coronavirus to ease the load on
hospitals and stave off further restrictions.
(Reporting by Bertrand Boucey; Editing by Sudip
Kar-Gupta)
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