Moderna working on new Covid-19 vaccine booster to tackle South Africa strain ...News

US biotech firm Moderna said on Monday that it was starting trials for another Covid-19 vaccine to immunize people against a mutant strain of the virus recently discovered in South Africa. The company also said laboratory tests had shown that two doses of its current Covid-19 shot are effective against the variant, known as 501.V2, as well as the B.1.1.7 strain of the virus found in Britain late last year. Moderna did stress, however, that the immune response generated by the vaccine appeared to be six times weaker against the South African variant compared to the previous Covid-19 strain, although with antibody levels still above the

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