Coronavirus Notebook: Adapted Comirnaty Vaccine Under EU Review, Sanofi & GSK Laud Next-Gen Booster

Valneva expects its vaccine candidate to be approved this month. Meanwhile, the core functions of the UK’s Vaccine Taskforce are to be transferred to the UK Health Security Agency and the Office for Life Sciences.

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On 15 June, the European Medicines Agency began a rolling review of an adapted version of Pfizer Inc./BioNTech SE’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, Comirnaty, which is designed to provide better protection against a specific variant or variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

“The details about the adapted vaccine, for example whether it will specifically target one or more SARS-CoV-2 variants or subvariants,...

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