WHO Approves Moderna Vaccine for Emergency Use

WHO Approves Moderna Vaccine for Emergency Use
An employee shows the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in New York City in a Dec. 21, 2020, file photograph. Eduardo Munoz/Reuters
The Associated Press
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GENEVA—The World Health Organization has given the go-ahead for emergency use of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine.

The mRNA vaccine from the U.S. manufacturer joins vaccines from AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech, and Johnson & Johnson in receiving the WHO’s emergency use listing. Similar approvals for China’s Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines are expected in the coming days and weeks, WHO has said.