EU’s medicines regulator has approved the single-shot Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine.
The Hague, Netherlands:
The EU’s medicines regulator approved the single-shot Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine on Thursday, making it the fourth jab to get the green light for the 27-nation bloc.
“This is the first vaccine which can be used as a single dose,” Emer Cooke, chief of the Amsterdam-based European Medicines Agency (EMA), said in a statement.
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