Omicronspecific

Yet another COVID-19 booster shot could be added to America's arsenal soon, as a leading Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel is set to meet Tuesday to discuss the merits of additional jabs tailored to the Omicron variant.The …

Moderna will be ready to dish out an Omicron-specific COVID-19 booster vaccine this fall, its chief medical officer has said — as U.S. Covid cases surge 51 percent over the past two weeks.The leading vaccine manufacturer's Dr Paul Burton…

Covid continues to haunt Chinese cities as capital Beijing imposed a new set of restrictions due to rising Covid cases. Authorities have imposed restrictions during the Labour Day holiday-week to avoid a rise in the number of cases. Beijing…

Image of a needle and a vial of vaccine. — AFP/file BRUSSELS: Germany's Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said he expected the roll-out of a vaccine specifically against the Omicron variant of the coronavirus would be delayed for…

BRUSSELS: An Omicron-specific booster could be ready by August, the CEO of US biotech firm Moderna told Reuters, but the firm is still gathering clinical data to determine whether that vaccine would offer better protection than a new dose…

Omicron-specific vaccines are developed to specifically target the Omicron variant. Recently, pharmaceutical giants Pfizer BioNtech and Moderna both announced that they had initiated clinical trials of Omicron-specific vaccines. The two…

US biotech company Moderna announced on Wednesday that it has begun clinical trials of a booster dose of vaccine designed specifically to combat the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. The trials will…

WASHINGTON: US biotech company Moderna announced on Wednesday (Jan 26) that it has begun clinical trials of a booster dose of vaccine designed specifically to combat the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. The trials will involve a total…

By Amruta Khandekar Reuters Posted January 26, 2022 6:20 pm   …

Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE said on Tuesday they started a clinical trial to test a new version of their vaccine specifically designed to target the COVID-19 Omicron variant, which has eluded some of the  protection provided by…