Moderna Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Stephane Bancel said that the existing vaccines might get failed to protect against a new variant of coronavirus, Omicron, reports DW
Banel added that there are a large number of mutations in the latest variant that anti-bodies induced in vaccines may not resist.
“There is no world, I think, where [the effectiveness] is the same level… we had with Delta,” she said, adding, “I think it’s going to be a material drop. I just don’t know how much because we need to wait for the data. But all the scientists I’ve talked to… are like ‘this is not going to be good.” Banel told.
The comments given by Banel raised the fears against the low-level resistance of existing antibodies in vaccines, which could lead to more sickness and hospitalisation.
It will take days to several weeks to understand the severity of the Omicron variant however, Dr Angelique Coetzee, the South African doctor who first spotted the new Covid variant Omicron claimed that the mild symptoms were spotted in the patients so far, reports BBC
The emergence of Omicron alarmed the whole world. It is drastically spreading in European countries and the first case was reported in India on Tuesday. Several countries already banned the flights from the countries where it first originated including Pakistan.
