Chief medical officer Paul Burton says mRNA vaccines can be adjusted quickly
Travel bans targeting Southern Africa are in place after the detection of the omicron variant. Picture: BLOOMBERG
“We should know about the ability of the current vaccine to provide protection in the next couple of weeks,” Burton said on Sunday on the BBC’s “Andrew Marr Show”. “The remarkable thing about the mRNA vaccines, the Moderna platform, is that we can move very fast,” he said. Protection should still exist, depending on how long ago a person was vaccinated, and for now the best advice is to take one of the current Covid-19 vaccines, Burton said.
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