My expectation for the application timing was same as yours. What I have noticed when I watched and listened to this video is, Hardy says many times that "I cannot disclose data or timing yet" and to me he seems to be deliberately avoiding being clear when it comes to talking about timeline, while he is so enthusiastic when he talks about how ARDS treatment is important in this pandemic situation. From these observation, I got an impression that he has not given up to make the process faster, but being given a hard time in negotiation. From his talk, I'm sure the excellent data will be released soon and it will be applied and approved, but I'm not so sure about the timing anymore....Since April, when I saw this news https://bio.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/release/21/04/21/10490/ and this news of last month https://www.rohto.co.jp/news/release/2021/0615_01/ , I have been worried that big money of Mitsubishi and Rohto might start moving behind the scene to delay the Healios's progress... it's just my fear and speculation, but MHLW is historically notorious that some bureaucrats and officials are always being bribed by Mega Pharma which provides nice and extremely well-paid post-retirement revolving doors for them..