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COVID vaccine manufacturers must prepare to adjust products after omicron appearance, says WHO

Manufacturers of COVID-19 vaccines must prepare for the “probability“Of having to adjust their products to provide protection against the omicron variant, said World Health Organization (WHO) spokesman Christian Lindmeier.

He held at an information session of the HIM-HER-IT in Geneva that the agency is studying the transmissibility and severity of the variant first detected in southern Africa last month.

It is highly recommended that vaccine manufacturers start planning ahead and anticipate the likelihood of having to adjust the existing vaccine.“, he pointed.

The German company BioNTech should be able to adapt its vaccine against coronavirus relatively quickly in response to the appearance of the omicron variant, its CEO said Ugur Sahin.

It will still take some time and do not rush to conclusions “, indicated Lindmeier. “Preliminary data, and we’ve said it for a long time, show that there is increased transmissibility. But that’s basically all we have so far”.

The delta variant remains the dominant one worldwide, accounting for more than 90% of infections, he noted.

Omicron may be increasing, and we may reach a point where it becomes the dominant variant, but at this point the dominant variant is still delta“, Held.

The restrictions that were put in place in many countries just two weeks ago, the lockdowns in some areas, the closure of Christmas markets in some parts of Europe, this was done before omicron due to an increase in delta cases. Let’s not lose sight of this”He added.

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