{"id":1470,"date":"2023-09-12T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2023-09-15T00:08:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T04:08:28","slug":"health-canada-approves-modernas-updated-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/health-canada-approves-modernas-updated-covid-19-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Canada approves Moderna\u2019s updated COVID-19 vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health Canada has approved Moderna\u2019s updated COVID-19 vaccine for all Canadians who are six months of age and older \u2014 while two other options for fall shots remain in the regulatory pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>Federal officials announced the approval on Tuesday morning, more than two months after Moderna submitted its new formulation. The mRNA-based shot is monovalent, targeting just the Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant, which means the vaccine is more tailored to the virus strains currently circulating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health Canada has approved Moderna\u2019s updated COVID-19 vaccine for all Canadians who are six months of age and older \u2014 while two other options for fall shots remain in the regulatory pipeline.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/health-canada-approves-modernas-updated-covid-19-vaccine\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Health Canada approves Moderna\u2019s updated COVID-19 vaccine<\/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":[96,18,21,253,55,252,14,320,15,255],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-health-canada","tag-moderna","tag-omicron","tag-pfizer","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\/1470","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=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}