EU agency due to rule on Pfzier COVID vaccine boosters in early October

In this file photo from June 29, 2021, a man receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 at an outdoor vaccination center set up by the French Red Cross at Republique square in Paris. (Martin Bureau/AFP)
In this file photo from June 29, 2021, a man receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 at an outdoor vaccination center set up by the French Red Cross at Republique square in Paris. (Martin Bureau/AFP)

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The EU’s drug watchdog expects to decide in early October whether to approve booster doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for people over the age of 16, a senior official says today.

The European Medicines Agency is also set to rule at the same time on additional doses of both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for immunocompromised people, its head of vaccine strategy Marco Cavaleri tells a press conference.

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