In a statement today, the UK's Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency said it had given the green light to Moderna's combination "bivalent" vaccine, which will be used as an adult booster shot.Each dose of the booster shot will target both the original COVID-19 virus that was first detected in 2020 and the Omicron BA.1 variant.
British regulators said the side effects were similar to those seen for Moderna's original booster shot and were typically "mild and self-resolving". Such an approach is used with flu shots, which are adjusted each year depending on the variants that are circulating and can protect against four influenza strains.People in the Australian Capital Territory over the age of 60 are now eligible to receive the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
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