A prominent immunologist who helped build the world’s first vaccine against COVID-19 says receiving a fourth dose of inoculation will be necessary in three months’ time if the Omicron variant of the coronavirus stays the dominant variant until then.
SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus Variant Omicron cell delta on green background 2021 2022.
Ugur Sahin, a German-Turkish oncologist and immunologist and the CEO of the German biotechnology company BioNTech, told Spiegel that people will have to get a fourth dose in summer if Omicron stays the most prevalent variant until then.
Sahin said new highly-mutated variants of the coronavirus could “certainly” emerge.
He said studies show that people who have received three doses of anti-Covid vaccine, are significantly immunized against Omicron.
The new variant, Omicron, was an unexpected one, Sahin said, explaining that he did not anticipate such a mutation until another year.
The coronavirus first emerged in China’s Wuhan in November 2019, and, after it quickly spread to elsewhere in the world, a pandemic was declared on March 11, 2020. So far, at least 5,944,043 people have died of the disease caused by the virus around the world.
Hamas has accepted a proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza war put forward by…
A fire has destroyed 389 houses and commercial properties in a village in the northern…
The director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran says the country is determined to…
The head of the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) has repeated urgent calls for…
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi urges Iraq’s Kurdistan region to not let its soil be used…
The United States has ramped up its search for an alternative to Ukraine's President Volodymyr…