Bloomberg Europe’s drugs regulator started an early review of an experimental Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE, potentially speeding the shot’s assessment and reducing its time to market. Called a “rolling review,” the process will allow the European Medicines Agency to look at how the vaccine is performing in real time as data emerges from trials, instead of ...

Bloomberg Germany said European allies will weigh action against Russia — including possible sanctions — after an international chemical-weapons watchdog confirmed that a nerve agent from the banned Novichok group had been used in the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny. “Any use of chemical weapons is a grave act and cannot go without consequences,” German government spokesman Steffen Seibert ...

Bloomberg Singapore banks will extend debt relief for individuals and small-to-midsized businesses beyond the end of the year to support borrowers hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. The measures, set to expire on December 31, will now progressively end over 2021, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said in a statement. The extended program will be tiered so those businesses ...