Tag: Omicron

Sanofi-GSK’s Covid vaccine, effective against omicron, could hit the market this year

Sanofi and GSK today announce positive data from their vaccine trial which evaluated an adjuvanted bivalent D614 and Beta...

Omicron-specific vaccine candidates containing inactivated or “killed” coronaviruses approved for clinical trials

COVID-19 vaccine candidates developed by a Sinopharm subsidiary and Sinovac Biotech to target the Omicron variant were approved for...

RedHill reports powerful inhibition of Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant by the oral drug candidate

RedHill Biopharma Ltd., a specialty biopharmaceutical company, announced study results in which opaganib, a leading oral drug candidate for...

Roche offers molecular testing solutions to identify and differentiate SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants

Roche and TIB Molbiol, a subsidiary within the Roche Diagnostics division, announced available testing solutions that can identify the...

WHO: COVID-19 vaccines in the context of the circulation of the Omicron

The World Health Organization, with the support of the Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Vaccine Composition (TAG-CO-VAC), continues to...

FDA Limits Use of Certain Monoclonal Antibodies to Treat COVID-19 Due to the Omicron Variant

The following is attributed to Patrizia Cavazzoni, M.D., director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. As we...

Moderna aims to roll out a combined flu and COVID vaccine in 2023

The biotechnological company Moderna is working to create a single shot vaccine against both flu and coronavirus by autumn...

Gamaleya Center can develop COVID-19 vaccine based on several strains

Deputy director of the center Denis Logunov specified that a part of the vaccine based on the Wuhan or...

WHO Interim Statement on composition of current and future COVID-19 vaccines

Interim Statement on COVID-19 vaccines in the context of the circulation of the Omicron SARS-CoV-2 Variant from the WHO...

Russia develops testing system capable of detecting Omicron coronavirus variant

A testing system capable of simultaneously detecting the coronavirus genome and deciding if it is the Omicron variant of...

ChemRar Group announces the Russian Avifavir® drug is effective against variants of COVID-19, including Delta and Omicron

ChemRar Group announces the Russian Avifavir® (INN: favipiravir) drug is effective against various variants of SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus), including Delta...