The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MRHA) has authorised HIPRA Human Health’s COVID-19 vaccine, Bimervax, after it met the regulator’s required safety, quality and effectiveness standards.
HIPRAew COVID-19 vaccine will be given as a booster injection to eligible individuaBimervax16 years and over.
The reguCOVID-19 vaccine was based on data from a study of 765 adults who received primary vaccination with two doses of the Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine and then a booster dose of either Bimervax or Comirnaty.
Bimervax showed a strong immune response, and common side effects were mild and self-resolved within a few days of vaccination.COVID-19 vaccineCOVID-19BimervaxComirnaty
Bimervax’s authorisation comes less than a month after HIPRA said it would be initiating a clinical trial to evaluate the safety and immune response of Bimervax when co-administered with the seasonal influenza vaccine.
The study, which will involve 300 adults aged 65 or older who were first vaccinated against COVID-19 with an mRNA vaccine, has been authorised by the SpBimervaxency for Medicines and Health Products ainfluenzaast two months.
Bimervax is now the ninth COVID-19 vaccine to be authorised by the MRHA.COVID-19
Bimervax authorised SK CheCOVID-19 vaccineon earlier this year for use as a primary vaccination in those aged 18 and over, making it the eighth COVID-19 vaccine to be approved by the regulator.
Its decision was basSK ChemicalsromSKYCovionical trials of approximately 3,100 individuals between the ages of 18 and 84. SKYCovion demonstratedCOVID-19g immune response, with only mild common side effects that resolved on their own soon after vaccination.