Biontec: The new Corona vaccine will be provided within 6 weeks

Ugur Shaheen, CEO of the German company Biontech, confirmed that its Corona virus vaccine is effective against the new strain that appeared in Britain, but more studies are needed to fully confirm. < / p>

According to Arabiya Net, Shaheen said: We do not know at the moment whether our vaccine is also able to provide protection from this new type. However, since the proteins in the new strain are 99%, which is the same percentage in the dominant strains, Biontech has scientific confidence in the vaccine.

Shaheen indicated that Biontech is currently conducting more studies, and hopes to confirm this in the coming weeks. He stated, “The probability of success of our vaccine is relatively high.

The Biontech vaccine, which was developed with the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer, is approved for use in more than 45 countries, including Britain, the United States and the European Union.

The Biontech laboratory confirmed, today, Tuesday, that it is able to provide a new vaccine within 6 weeks in the event that the virus mutates, indicating that the current vaccine is effective with the mutated strain of the virus Corona.

The European Commission approved, yesterday, the emergency use of the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine, and the European Medicines Agency gave Bushra that the Pfizer vaccine is effective against the new strain of the virus, as the Director-General said The agency told Emir Cook in a press conference on Corona vaccines, that the evidence has shown that the benefits of the Pfizer vaccine are greater than the harms, indicating that there is no evidence that the vaccine is ineffective against the new mutated strain.

A number of countries of the world have started vaccination campaigns with a vaccine from Pfizer and Biontech, including Saudi Arabia, Britain and the United States, especially after its adoption and confirmation of its effectiveness against the emerging Corona virus, Before it mutated again in Britain, the first countries to start vaccination with the Pfizer - Biontech vaccine.

And while the world began to fear the new strain of the virus, which initial results indicate that it is more dangerous than the first version of the virus, Russia also announced that its Sputnik vaccine is effective Against the mutated strain of Corona.