THE HAGUE, Dec 10 — The EU medicines watchdog said Thursday the Omicron variant of Covid-19 may cause milder disease, as the World Health Organization warned against a re-run of vaccine hoarding by rich nations as the new strain spreads.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday said that “emerging data from South Africa suggests increased risk of reinfection with Omicron”. The comments come after Pfizer and BioNTech said Wednesday that a third dose of their vaccine was effective against the variant, and that it was developing an Omicron-specific jab that should be available by March. Some wealthy countries like Germany and Britain are already hard-hit by a winter wave of infections.
That prompted the WHO on Thursday to caution against the restrictions on vaccine supply seen earlier this year.
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