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Thanks For The COVID Vaccine, But Can You Say That In Estonian?

News18 | 01/09/2020 07:11 PM | Click to read full article

It is hard enough developing a vaccine in record time to halt a global pandemic. But what if you need to print the instructions with every dose in Portuguese, Lithuanian, and Greek?

Drugmakers are asking the European Union to loosen rules that require medicines sold in the bloc to include full documentation in 24 separate languages, worried that this could slow down the rapid deployment of hundreds of millions of doses.

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