Long wait: Vaccine makers queue up for WHO approval, shows data

As public interest piques around when a final nod from the World Health Organisation (WHO) would come for Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin, data shows that several other Covid-19 vaccines from around the globe are also waiting for WHO Emergency Use Listing (EUL).

Industry insiders say typically a WHO EUL takes between two months and a year. “During the pandemic, however, this audit process has been expedited. Even then, the Chinese vaccines took five months before they got a final nod from the WHO,” said a senior official at a vaccine firm.
 
France’s Sanofi, US major Novavax (along with its