Nov 4 (Reuters) - The European Union's drug regulator said
on Thursday it was in discussions with AstraZeneca over
possible authorisation of booster doses of the drugmaker's
COVID-19 vaccine, after it already gave the green light to mRNA
booster shots.
"AstraZeneca is submitting data to us. Actually today they
submitted a new package of data that could support an extension
to use the booster," the European Medicines Agency's head of
vaccines strategy, Marco Cavaleri, said at a briefing.
"We will be discussing with them whether this data could be
sufficient for (authorisation) or whether we need more
evidence," Cavaleri added.
(Reporting by Pushkala Aripaka in Bengaluru and Ludwig Burger
in Frankfurt; Editing by Edmund Blair)
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