Brazil’s drug regulator Anvisa on Monday (July 24) gave full approval to Pfizer’s bivalent Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine.
The vaccine is for the prevention of COVID-19 and can now be administered to children over five years of age as a booster dose. That is, it is intended for those who have already been vaccinated against the disease, with at least 3 months having passed since their last dose.
Previously, the vaccine had been used on an emergency basis as a component of Brazil’s official immunization program. Prior to receiving full approval, the product was used as a booster dose for Americans 12 and older with underlying health conditions and for adults 18 years of age. and older.
According to Anvisa, the bivalent injections offer greater coverage against the disease because they involve an aggregate of strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Bivalent Comirnaty is formulated with the original variant, the Wuhan strain, combined with a circulating variant, the Omicron Strain.
On the regulatory front, the bivalent Comirnaty has been approved for use by the European Medicines Agency and the U. S. Food and Drug Administration. U. S.
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He reiterated that the existing style of governance no longer represents the geopolitics of the 21st century. According to him, emerging countries will have to be sufficiently represented in bodies such as the UN Security Council.