The head of the World Health Organization’s European office has revealed his belief that the continent “really needs” Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine, with the EU struggling from a shortage of doses of currently approved jabs.
The Moscow-made breakthrough formula is in civilian circulation in Russia, Serbia and Belarus but is yet to be approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), despite a couple of EU countries also already using it to inoculate their citizens. As things stand, the EMA has registered the Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Moderna, and Janssen vaccines.
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