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The World Health Organization (WHO) has given the go-ahead for the emergency use of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine.
Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021
The mRNA vaccine from the U.S. manufacturer joins vaccines from AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech and Johnson & Johnson in receiving the WHO’s emergency use listing.
Messenger RNA vaccines—also called mRNA vaccines—are a new type of vaccine to protect against infectious diseases.
Similar approvals for China’s Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines are expected in the coming days and weeks.