The day: Biontech: vaccine also works with a new mutation

The day
Biontech: Vaccine also works with a new mutation

It is desperate: Almost a year after the start of the corona pandemic, vaccines against Covid-19 have finally been found and mass vaccinations are underway – a possibly even more contagious mutation of the virus is spreading. Understandably, many people are now concerned about whether the vaccine currently approved in the EU by the pharmaceutical companies Biontech and Pfizer is also effective against this as yet unexplored change.

The head of the Mainz company Biontech, Ugur Sahin, has now given the all-clear in the "Bild" interview: He is confident that the vaccine will also work with the novel mutation from Great Britain. He pointed out that so far investigated Mutations in the pathogen did not affect the vaccine would have. This mutation will also be investigated in the coming days.

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