The EU medicines watchdog said it could decide later today whether to authorise Moderna's coronavirus vaccine, bringing forward the date from Wednesday.
The Amsterdam-based European Medicines Agency had already fast-tracked the decision from the originally scheduled date of 12 January under pressure from EU countries as infections soar. "There is a meeting of EMA's human medicines committee (CHMP) today, Monday, 4 January, to discuss the Moderna vaccine," the regulator said.
The EMA said it would issue a statement as soon as possible "in the event that the CHMP reaches an opinion at today's meeting".
If it failed to make a decision on a year-long conditional marketing authorisation for the Moderna vaccine it would meet again on Wednesday,