Hungary already uses Sputnik V, but EMA urges caution? – Vaccine still waiting for EU approval
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A senior European Medicines Agency (EMA) official urged European Union members on Sunday to refrain from granting national approvals for Russian COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V while the agency reviews its safety and effectiveness.
“We need documents that we can review. We also don’t at the moment have data…about vaccinated people.
It is unknown. That’s why I would urgently advise against giving a national emergency authorisation,”
EMA managing board head Christa Wirthumer-Hoche told a talk show on Austrian broadcaster ORF.
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“We can have Sputnik V on the market here in future when the appropriate data have been reviewed. The rolling review has begun now at EMA,” she added after the agency said last week it had launched such a review.