Health Canada approved Medicago's COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, which uses GlaxoSmithKline's adjuvant to boost immune response, making it the first approval for the plant-based-manufacture shot anywhere in the world.
The two-dose vaccine has been approved for people aged 18 to 64 years, the health agency said in a notice https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/s...icago.html.
The shot was 75.3% effective against the Delta variant of the virus in a late-stage study, the two companies said in December. Efficacy against hospitalisation was 81%.
The vaccine also showed overall efficacy of 71% against all variants of the coronavirus except Omicron, which was not in circulation when the study was underway.
The shot uses a technology known as virus-like particles (VLP), which mimic the structure of the coronavirus but contain no genetic material from it.
The two-dose vaccine has been approved for people aged 18 to 64 years, the health agency said in a notice https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/s...icago.html.
The shot was 75.3% effective against the Delta variant of the virus in a late-stage study, the two companies said in December. Efficacy against hospitalisation was 81%.
The vaccine also showed overall efficacy of 71% against all variants of the coronavirus except Omicron, which was not in circulation when the study was underway.
The shot uses a technology known as virus-like particles (VLP), which mimic the structure of the coronavirus but contain no genetic material from it.
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