Agencies | Kuwait City The Daily Tribune - www.newsofbahrain.com Kuwait Ministry of Health has authorised the emergency use of Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine, a ministry official announced on Sunday. A joint committee of the medicine registration and supervision department an
Agencies | Kuwait City
The Daily Tribune - www.newsofbahrain.com
Kuwait Ministry of Health has authorised the emergency use of Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine, a ministry official announced on Sunday.
A joint committee of the medicine registration and supervision department and the public health department for the evaluation and registration of vaccines has approved emergency use of the vaccine, Dr Abdullah Al-Bader, Assistant Undersecretary for Pharmaceutical and Food Supervision, said.
He added that the committee's decision followed a thorough review of the safety and quality specifications of the vaccine.
"The committee also reviewed the results of clinical trials."
Al Bader emphasized that MoH would closely follow the safety of the vaccine following its use to ensure well-being of the public.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued the first emergency use authorisation of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
So far, the US, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the UK have authorised the use of Pfizer's vaccine.
