EU regulators have recommended authorizing an updated COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech which targets the dominant XBB.1.5 variant of Omicron, putting it on track to become the third adapted shot by the two companies to be approved in the bloc.
The vaccine, dubbed Comirnaty, is to be used for preventingCOVID-19 in adults and children with a dosage dependent onprevious vaccinations.
It could be a single dose for those with a history ofcompletion of a COVID-19 primary vaccination course or priorSARS-CoV-2 infection, the committee added. Vaccine makers including Moderna and Novavaxhave also created versions of their shots aimed at theXBB.1.5 subvariant of the virus.
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