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Swiss to start Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine jabs after watchdog’s… – Thomson Reuters Foundation
HEALTH -CORONAVIRUS/SWISS-VACCINE (UPDATE 4, PIX):UPDATE 4-Swiss to start Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine jabs after watchdog’s OK
* Swissmedic calls approval a world first as standard procedure
* Vaccinations to start within days
* Nationwide programme of jabs to launch from Jan.4
* No shortcuts taken on road to approval – agency
* (Adds comments from health authorities’ news conference)
By Michael Shields
ZURICH, Dec 19 (Reuters) – Switzerland will start getting doses of COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and partner BioNTech within days after its drugs regulator authorised use of the jabs in what officials called the world’s first…
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