The UK has approved the world's first coronavirus vaccine from Moderna, which fights two strains at once: the original Covid-19 virus and the Omicron variant, BBC reports..

The results of experiments on 437 people showed that the updated vaccine is safe and provides better immune protection against new variants..

Moderna has said it is ready to begin delivering doses within the next few weeks, but who exactly will receive them has yet to be revealed..

From next month in the UK, all people over 50 and people in high-risk groups will be offered some form of booster..

In the UK, the number of cases of infection with coronavirus falls, in mid-late July, about 2.5 million people tested positive.

Previous coronavirus vaccines were developed to fight the first form of the virus, which appeared in Wuhan, China at the end of 2019..

Since then, the virus has mutated significantly and new strains have led to new waves of disease and outbreaks..

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According to the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakides, we may face a new wave of COVID-19 in winter. “Unfortunately, the pandemic has shown alarming growth in several countries,” she stressed..

Last week, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine announced an increase in the number of new cases of COVID-19 in the country: the figure increased by 40% over the week.