The Philippines' Food and Drug Administration has authorised the emergency use of Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE's COVID-19 vaccine, its head said on Thursday.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which has shown a 95 per cent success rate, is the first vaccine the Philippines has approved.
FDA head Rolando Enrique Domingo told a media briefing China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd on Wednesday submitted to regulators its emergency use authorization application.
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Nine killed in Turkey's second school shooting in two days
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India Vedanta power plant blast kills at least 17
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