Great Britain wants to approve Biontech's corona vaccine as early as next week

In Great Britain, the corona vaccine from the Mainz Company Biontech and the US group Pfizer will apparently be approved as early as next week.

Then the delivery should begin immediately, reports the British Financial Times. Pfizer and Biontech recently applied for emergency approval for their vaccine in the United States. According to the government, vaccinations will begin there in mid-December. The EU has also negotiated contracts with Biontech and Pfizer as well as the two vaccine manufacturers Moderna and AstraZeneca for hundreds of millions of doses.

Russia started yesterday to vaccinate all military personnel against the corona virus with the newly developed Sputnik V serum.

Further articles on the coronavirus

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Numbers and dates

+ Current developments: Figures on the coronavirus in Germany (as of November 27)

Test and protection

+ Protection: This is how the vaccination against the coronavirus should be organized (as of November 20)

+ Tests for the coronavirus: when, where and how? (Status: October 29th)

+ How useful are mass tests for the whole population? (Status: November 28th)

+ Corona infection: how reliable are the tests? (As of November 18)

+ Treatment: This is how far vaccine research against the coronavirus is (as of November 16)

+ Remdesivir and Co: how far is the search for drugs against Covid-19? (As of October 16)

+ Infection: What do we know so far about reinfections and immunity against the coronavirus? (Status: 10.10.)

+ Hospitals: What the increase in corona infections means for them (as of November 14th)

Contagion and Transmission

+ Transmission: how contagious are children? (As of November 17)

+ Transfer: What role do aerosols play (as of 10.10.)

+ Face masks: What you should know about protective masks (as of October 29th)

+ Excess mortality: how deadly is the coronavirus really? (Status: November 27th)

+ Travel warning: The current list of risk areas (as of November 13th)