Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, announced the launch of a program dedicated to the fight against variants in an interview with “Echoes” on Tuesday (February 16th).
“Hera incubator”. Behind this name hides a program that the European Commission will launch on Wednesday 17 February. Its goal: to study the variations of Covid-19. The announcement was made by the President of the European Commission to “Echoes” Tuesday, February 16th.
This new program “will bring together laboratories, health authorities, scientists, and the European Commission, with significant dedicated funds,” assured Ursula von der Leyen, without specifying the amounts.
“These changes worry us a lot”
“These changes worry us a lot,” she said. “We must help manufacturers to develop production capacities” for “second generation” vaccines, further details the manager.
Brussels had already announced its intention to launch a new European agency, the Health Emergency Response Authority (HERA), in order to fight against future pandemics and to better coordinate between the Twenty-Seven.
New vaccines: fast track?
As for the marketing of new vaccines able to better respond to Covid-19 variants, the European Commissioner for Health, Stella Kyriakides, has promised an acceleration of the authorization procedure by the European Medicines Agency.
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