BREAKING: Health Canada approves Pfizer's BA.4/BA.5 Omicron vaccine
Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos and Health Canada officials are scheduled to discuss the approval in detail later today.
The authorization says the vaccine can be given three to six months after a second dose of the primary vaccine series, or the most recent booster shot. It is the second combination vaccine greenlighted by Health Canada's vaccine review team, but the first that targets the virus strains that are now most common in Canada.
The Moderna combination shot approved five weeks ago targets the original virus and the first Omicron variant, while the Pfizer shot authorized today targets the BA.4 and BA.5 strains. Health Canada says 88 per cent of the COVID-19 cases identified in mid-September were BA.5 and nine per cent were BA.4.Barbara Violo, pharmacist and owner of The Junction Chemist Pharmacy, draws up a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, in Toronto, Friday, June 18, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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