Moderna vaccine to be reviewed for WHO emergency listing on April 30: WHO

GENEVA: Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine is to be reviewed on April 30 by technical experts for possible WHO

emergency

use listing, a World Health Organization spokesman told Reuters.


"We are discussing the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine on Friday (April 30),” WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier said in reply to a query. A decision on the US drugmaker's vaccine was expected in one to four days after that, he said.

So far Covid-19 vaccines made by Pfizer,

AstraZeneca

and Johnson & Johnson have already received WHO approval, which is a signal to national regulatory authorities on a product's safety and efficacy.