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Coronavirus: Britain approves Moderna’s vaccine for the Omicron mutation

Britain has become the first country to give the green light to Moderna’s vaccine against it coronavirus which also aims at Omicron mutation.

The vaccine has been approved by UK health officials as a booster dose in adults, according to the UK Medicines Regulatory Authority.

Her vaccine Modern it targets both the original strain and the first Omicron variant (BA.1), which appeared last winter. It is known as a bivalent vaccine as it targets two forms of Covid.

Who will make the vaccine in Britain?

  • health and social workers
  • all from 50 years and above
  • carers who are over 16 years old
  • people over the age of five whose health puts them at greater risk, this includes pregnant women people over the age of five who share a home with someone with a weakened immune system

Originally it was not going to be given to people aged 50-65.

However, the immunization campaign has been extended because of the rapid spread of the variants, uncertainty about how the virus will mutate and the expectation that we will be more social this winter than in previous years – giving the virus more chance to spread.

Source: News Beast

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