GSK, Sanofi see EU drugs regulator decision on COVID booster in weeks
The vaccine could be used as a booster for people who had received any other COVID-19 vaccine, Triomphe said.;
Brussels: The European Union's drugs regulator may be a few weeks from deciding whether to approve the experimental COVID-19 vaccine developed by French drugmaker Sanofi and its British partner GSK, a Sanofi executive said on Monday.
The companies' bivalent vaccine targets the Beta variant as well as the original Wuhan strain of the virus. Trial results also showed the shot confers protection against the Omicron variant currently widespread in Europe.
Thomas Triomphe, Sanofi's executive vice-president for vaccines, told a hearing in the European Parliament that he believed the European Medicines Agency (EMA) would decide on the possible approval of the vaccine in a few weeks.
The EMA was not immediately available to comment.
Sanofi and GSK, two of the world's biggest vaccine makers, are hoping to gain a foothold in the market for variant-focused COVID shots, after falling behind competitors including Moderna, AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech, in the original race to contain the pandemic.
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