UK becomes 1st country to approve Omicron vaccine

Category : International Published on: August 18 2022

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The UK has become the first country to authorise a Covid-19 vaccine tailored to the Omicron variant.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority – which was the first in the world to approve an original Covid-19 jab – has granted conditional authorisation to the vaccine, which targets both the original strain of the virus and Omicron BA.1.
Moderna’s “bivalent” vaccine was approved by the U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and endorsed by the government’s independent scientific advisory body.
It also received endorsement from the British government’s independent scientific advisory body, the Commission on Human Medicines.