Moderna expects its COVID-19 vaccine to shield towards UK coronavirus variant

Moderna expects its COVID-19 vaccine to shield towards UK coronavirus variant

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  • Post By : Kumar Jeetendra

  • Source: Reuters

  • Date: 24 Dec,2020

Moderna Inc said it anticipates that the immunity induced by its COVID-19 vaccine would be protective against the coronavirus variants reported in britain.

The company said it intends to conduct tests to confirm the vaccine’s action against any strain.

Moderna’s comments came amid the British government’s plan to put massive swathes of England under its strictest COVID-19 constraints as a highly infectious virus version sweeps the nation.

The company said it expects its vaccine, which was recently granted the U.S. emergency use authorization, to be protective against the UK variant based on data thus far.

“We have already examined sera from animals and people vaccinated with the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine against a range of former variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that have emerged since the first outbreak of the pandemic and discovered our vaccine to stay equally powerful,” Moderna stated.

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