"The vaccine is being finished . it should be in the clinic in coming weeks. We are hoping in the March timeframe to be able to have data to share with regulators to figure out next steps," Bancel said at the World Economic Forum's virtual Davos Agenda conference.
Gennova Biopharmaceuticals, a Pune-based company which is making India's first mRNA vaccine, is also developing an Omicron-specific vaccine, sources said.
The Omicron variant of coronavirus is rapidly displacing the Delta variant and reaching global dominance, said a senior official from the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday
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Following the detection of the Omicron variant, one of the most pressing questions today is whether the vaccine will provide protection against the newly detected Covid variant.