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GENEVA, Dec 11 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization
expects to make decisions on whether to give emergency use
approval to COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna and
AstraZeneca in coming weeks, its chief scientist said on Friday.
Soumya Swaminathan said the global health body could decide
on Pfizer's vaccine candidate in the next "couple of weeks", and
later said it could also review Moderna's and AstraZeneca's in a
few weeks. WHO approval could allow a vaccine to be deployed in
some countries where national medical regulators have not yet
been able to evaluate it.
(Writing by Peter Graff; Editing by Catherine Evans)
