ZURICH — Switzerland will start getting doses of COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and partner BioNTech within days after its drug regulator authorized the use of the jabs in what officials called the world’s first approval under a standard procedure.
Two months after receiving the application, Swissmedic allowed the vaccine for people aged 16 and older after a rolling review of documents being submitted.
That cleared the way for an initial delivery of just over 100,000 doses, which the army will put into deep-freeze storage and send to cantons to start inoculations of vulnerable people, including the elderly and those with medical conditions.
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