Coronavirus live news: Irish urged to be vigilant as lockdown ends; Russia has record daily deaths
Latest updates: Irish warned to minimise socialising; WHO ‘will do everything' to find Covid origin; Mexico and Brazil seeing ‘alarming' case surge US may begin vaccinations before ChristmasVietnam reports first community virus in almost three monthsModerna Covid vaccine has 94% efficacy, final results confirmScott Atlas resigns as Trump's pandemic adviser after controversial tenureSee all our coronavirus coverage 11.33am GMT The European Medicines Agency said if its experts have received enough data from drugmakers Pfizer and Moderna about their coronavirus vaccine candidates, the agency would complete its reviews for the Pfizer vaccine by 29 December and the Moderna vaccine by 12 January, at the latest.The companies said earlier on Tuesday they had submitted approval requests for their vaccine candidates to the European drugs regulator. 11.30am GMT Germany's BioNTech and its US partner, Pfizer, have applied for EU regulatory approval for their Covid-19 vaccine, raising hopes that the first jabs could be administered in December.The two companies said they had submitted an application to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Monday seeking “conditional marketing authorisation (CMA)†for their vaccine.
