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‘Completely new’ COVID strains possible in winter: EU drug agency

Europe’s strategy for the winter is to have a broad range of updated vaccines [File: Sumaya Hisham/Reuters]

Entirely new COVID-19 variants could emerge this winter, the European Union’s drug agency has said, but existing vaccines should protect people from serious illness and death.

As the 27-nation EU prepares to roll out a booster campaign ahead of a feared wave of new coronavirus cases later this year, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) stressed that the virus is still circulating and is evolving quickly.

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