Covid-19 vaccines and the agency is not under political pressure to speed up vaccine approvals, the regulator's chief said in remarks published on Wednesday."For the time being they have not sought authorisation for their vaccines.
If they do, we will study the data," EMA's Executive Director Emer Cooke told Italian daily la Repubblica, when asked about the Chinese and Russian vaccines.China has approved three vaccine candidates developed by Sinovac and state-owned Sinopharm for emergency use.Russia was the first country to grant regulatory approval for a novel coronavirus vaccine, doing so before large-scale trials were complete, stirring concern among scientists and doctors about the safety and efficacy of the shot.The Russian vaccine.