Millions of pounds are being ploughed into developing variant-proof Covid vaccines that could be as effective against future strains as those circulating now. Scientists fear that current jabs could offer little protection against new versions of the Sars-Cov-2 virus – putting the world back to square one. The international Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, to which the UK has contributed £260 million, is backing two projects. Both are ‘subunit’ vaccines that introduce chunky fragments of the virus into the body. Because they show the body larger parts of the virus than today’s vaccines, they are thought to be better at protecting against multiple variants.

Source: Daily Mail November 07, 2021 23:11 UTC