The COVID-19 vaccine candidate, BNT162b1, has been approved for clinical trial registration by China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA).
Pfizer and BioNTech have received fast track designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for two of their four potential Covid-19 vaccines.
If studies are successful and mRNA-based vaccine candidate receives regulatory approval, companies expect to manufacture up to 100 million doses by the end of 2020 and potentially more than 1.2 billion doses by the end of 2021.