{"id":1377,"date":"2023-09-12T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2023-09-12T12:46:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T16:46:47","slug":"modernas-updated-covid-vaccine-targeting-xbb-1-5-approved-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/modernas-updated-covid-vaccine-targeting-xbb-1-5-approved-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Moderna\u2019s updated COVID vaccine targeting XBB.1.5 approved in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health Canada has given the green light to an eagerly anticipated fall COVID-19 booster shot in hopes of bolstering the nation\u2019s defence against the virus as the fall season approaches.<\/p>\n<p>The health regulator on Tuesday approved the updated vaccine made by Moderna for all Canadians aged six months and older. Approval for the updated Pfizer vaccine under review has not been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health Canada has given the green light to an eagerly anticipated fall COVID-19 booster shot in hopes of bolstering the nation\u2019s defence against the virus as the fall season approaches.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/modernas-updated-covid-vaccine-targeting-xbb-1-5-approved-in-canada\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Moderna\u2019s updated COVID vaccine targeting XBB.1.5 approved in Canada<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,18,21,253,55,14,320,15,255],"class_list":["post-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-health-canada","tag-moderna","tag-omicron","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vaccination","tag-vaccines","tag-xbb-1-5","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions\/1378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}