Search Tag: COVID Vaccine
The-omicron-variant-of-south-africa
2021 27 Nov
On Friday, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the new Omicron variant of South Africa to be ‘of concern’, WHO’s most serious category. The new SARS-CoV-2 variant features over 30 mutations in the spike protein that the virus uses to infect human cells. Since effective antibodies and vaccines are directed to previous versions of the spike...Read more
Eu-approves-5th-covid-19-vaccine-by-novavax
2021 22 Dec
The European Commission granted conditional marketing authorisation for Novavax’s COVID-19 Vaccine for individuals 18 years or older. The U.S. biotech, Novavax , currently holds emergency use authorisations for its two-dose vaccine in the Philippines and Indonesia and has received emergency use listing from the World Health Organization. Unlike...Read more