China currently allows only one booster, and has yet to approve foreign-made doses. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BEIJING - China granted emergency use authorisation to Livzon Pharmaceutical Group's Covid-19 vaccine as a booster, the company said Friday, one of just two new products against the disease the country has cleared in more than a year.
The United States has authorised updated Covid-19 booster shots from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna that target the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants, while countries, including Canada and Britain, also have ordered updated Omicron vaccine boosters for campaigns later this year. Data showed that other vaccines, ranging from foreign mRNA shots produced by Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna to domestic non-inactivated candidates, elicited higher antibody readings against the Omicron variant as a mix-and-match booster compared with using a third Sinovac or Sinopharm dose.
One Livzon booster dose lowered the risk of symptomatic Covid-19 disease by 47.8 per cent compared with those who just received two inactivated vaccine shots, based on results from a trial with more than 10,000 participants and 110 cases, published in the medical journal Emerging Microbes & Infections.
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