WHO admits the emergence of mutations of the coronavirus, requiring adaptation of vaccines

“Of course, we must consider (the likelihood of -

) that new mutations may appear.

Then, perhaps, it will be necessary to adapt the vaccines, ”Vujnovich quotes TASS.

There are currently no concerns about the effectiveness of existing vaccines against the new strain of coronavirus, she said.

Earlier, Fedor Lisitsyn, a leading specialist at the Gamaleya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, said that the existing COVID-19 mutations do not affect the effectiveness of the Sputnik V vaccine. 

At the end of 2020, the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova noted that Russian vaccines are effective against new COVID-19 mutations detected in the world.