The German health minister said on Friday that drug regulators in the European Union may authorize the use of effective vaccines once morest two different types of coronavirus.
German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said he expected the European Medicines Agency to meet on September 1 to consider a vaccine that would provide protection once morest the original virus. and an omicron mutant known as PA1.
The European Union agency is likely to meet once more on September 27 to review a joint vaccine once morest the original virus and the PA5 mutant responsible for the virus. The recent global increase in Corona casesLauterbach said.
From the vaccination campaign once morest Corona in Germany
He stressed that Germany had purchased sufficient quantities of the two vaccines and would be able to start offering them a day following they obtained permission to do so.
For its part, the US Food and Drug Administration said that combination vaccines, Known as “bivalent” or “polyvalent” vaccines, the boosters will allow the boosters to retain the proven benefits of the original coronavirus vaccines while providing additional protection once morest the new mutants.
Such an approach is used with influenza vaccines, which are modified each year depending on circulating variants and can protect once morest 4 strains of influenza.
From the vaccination campaign once morest Corona in New York
