Does the Covid vaccine work against new variants? What Oxford Astrazeneca, Pfizer and Moderna have ...
(World News Austria)

But could the current vaccines work against new variants? This is what we know so far. What are the new variants? Coronavirus, like any virus, mutates as it develops and adapts inside the body. A new UK variant - which has resulted in a large increase in Covid-19 cases and subsequent national lockdowns - was first recognised in September 2020 and is thought to have a 70% higher transmission rate. The current vaccines have proven sufficiently effective at immunising against this strain. However, another new strain was detected in South Africa on 4 January, and has since travelled around the world - to the UK, France, Switzerland, Japan, Austria and Zambia. On 14 January, another new variant...