LONDON: The European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Thursday (Sep 1) backed the use of Novavax's COVID-19 shot as a booster for adults, ahead of an anticipated rise in infections this winter. The vaccine, Nuvaxovid, is designed to target the strain of the virus that originally emerged in China. The EMA's recomm
LONDON: The European Medicines Agency on Thursday backed the use of Novavax's COVID-19 shot as a booster for adults, ahead of an anticipated rise in infections this winter.
Separately on Thursday, the EMA backed two separate COVID-19 vaccine boosters updated to target the Omicron variant of the virus. Novavax's Nuvaxovid made its debut well after first set of COVID-19 shots - including those from Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson - were approved in different parts of the world.
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