In a press release on the 4th of December 2020, the Europol made mention of a high likelihood of counterfeit vaccines infiltrating the market as the world races to find a lasting solution to the COVID-19 pandemic through vaccines. This warning by Europol came in even as the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced that it was about to conclude the evaluation of its first conditional marketing application for COVID-19.
In March last year (2020), as the coronavirus pandemic started to take its toll on various aspects of daily social and economic life, there appeared to be a lot of gloom. In the bid to help nip the pandemic in the bud and contribute to getting things up and running once again, the European Commission through its European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator Pilot programmelaunched a call for ideas to tackle the viral epidemic.
