Pfizer, BioNTech Covid Vaccine Cleared for Human Tests

  • BioNTech’s shares soar after regulator gives go-ahead
  • Testing on 200 healthy people in Germany to start shortly
Photographer: Balint Porneczi/Bloomberg
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Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE secured approval for Germany’s first human clinical trials of a possible coronavirus vaccine, entering a global race to develop a defense against the pandemic.