Existing vaccines should protect people from serious illness and death, the EU's drug agency said on Friday (Aug 2). Read more at straitstimes.com.
THE HAGUE - Entirely new Covid-19 variants could emerge this winter, but existing vaccines should protect people from serious illness and death, the EU's drug agency said on Friday .
It will include a mix of newly-approved jabs adapted for the now dominant Omicron strain, and the original vaccines developed to fight the virus that first emerged in China in 2019, the European Medicines Agency said. A Pfizer version updated for the now-dominant BA.4 and 5 strains should be authorised in mid-September, while a similar Moderna jab is also in the pipeline.
Most people will instead still get the original vaccines that are designed to tackle the Wuhan strain of coronavirus.
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