Health Canada Approves Moderna’s Omicron Booster Vaccine

Health Canada Approves Moderna’s Omicron Booster Vaccine
A health-care worker administers the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine to a patient at a clinic in Ottawa on March 30, 2021. The Canadian/Sean Kilpatrick
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Health Canada has approved a new COVID-19 vaccine from Moderna that targets both the original strain of the novel coronavirus and the Omicron variant.

The new shots approved by Health Canada, called bivalent vaccines, are designed to recognize specific mutations in the spike protein of the Omicron BA.1 subvariant.