Health
China official rejects virus variant fears – The West Australian
An official at China’s disease control centre says fears are unfounded over a new COVID-19 variant and its immune impact on a recently authorised vaccine.
There is no sign new coronavirus variants will affect the immune impact of a vaccine that China has just authorised for public use, a disease control official says.
The shot, developed by an affiliate of state-backed company Sinopharm, was approved on Thursday, the day after news broke of China’s first imported case of a mutated variant of COVID-19 spreading in Britain.
The variant includes a genetic mutation in the ‘spike’ protein, which could theoretically result in easier spread of COVID-19.
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