The Co-founder of the leading drug-company BioNTech Ugur Sahin said that the world becomes "better prepared" to deal with any future Coronavirus variants, Al Ain reported on Thursday.
Sahin added: "We will have to get used to the fact that we will have to live with the virus for the next 10 years."
The BioNTech official also highlighted that the surge of COVID-19 infections around the work is driven by more transmissible Omicron and its sub-mutations that widely emerged in Europe.
Moreover, he asserted that more mutations will appear as the virus is still mutating and will do further mutations
The firm Pfizer and BioNTech announced the beginning of the clinical trials for their vaccine that targets the Omicron COVID-19 variant, the Brussels Times reported on Tuesday.
The earliest stage of the clinical trials will include 1420 people and they will be pided into three groups.
Three main features of the vaccine would be evaluated and they are tolerability, efficacy, and safety.
The CEO of BioNTech Ugur Sahin said in a press release: “The study is part of our scientific approach to develop a variant-based vaccine that provides similar protection against Omicron as we observed with the previous variants, which also lasts longer.”
Regarding the pision of the groups, the first group would contain 605 participants and they received two doses of the available vaccine between 90 and 180 days before the study and they will now receive one or two doses of the newly developed one for Omicron.
The second one will involve 600 people who received a booster. They will receive an additional shot of the current Pfizer vaccine or a dose of the Omicron-targeted vaccine.
The third pision will contain 205 people and they are non-vaccinated people who never contracted Coronavirus; therefore, they will receive three doses of the Omicron vaccine.
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