The European union's drugs regulator will on Monday decide whether to authorise the use of Novavax's vaccine against COVID-19 which its manufacturer claims can help win over vaccine sceptics.
If approved by the European Medicines Agency's (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use, Novavax will be the fifth vaccine authorised across the bloc alongside Pfizer/BioNTech, AstraZeneca/Oxford, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson.
Novavax uses a more conventional technology than those used for the other vaccines already in use — it is similar to the technology used in the decades-old hepatitis B and pertussis vaccines — and does not need to be stored at ultra-low temperatures.
The so-called protein "subunit" vaccine contains purified fragments
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