Global News published this video item, entitled “COVID-19: Health minister makes announcement as Canada reviews Omicron booster | LIVE” – below is their description.
Canadian Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos will make a virtual announcement Thursday on the ongoing fight against COVID-19 as provincial health systems eagerly await the approval of a vaccine that targets the Omicron variant of the virus.
Vaccines currently available in Canada target the original strain of COVID-19 and aren’t as effective with the Omicron subvariants.
The new shots under review by Health Canada, called bivalent vaccines, are designed to recognize specific mutations in the spike protein of the Omicron BA.1 subvariant.
Canada has already purchased 12 million doses of Moderna’s version of the Omicron vaccine, which includes converting some existing orders for the original Moderna vaccine so that the newly-adapted version will be delivered instead.
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