{"id":9090,"date":"2025-08-22T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9090"},"modified":"2025-08-22T22:55:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T02:55:18","slug":"health-canada-approves-updated-pfizer-moderna-covid-19-vaccines-for-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/health-canada-approves-updated-pfizer-moderna-covid-19-vaccines-for-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Canada approves updated Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8211; Health Canada has authorized updated COVID-19 vaccines by Pfizer and BioNTech and by Moderna for use this respiratory virus season.<\/p>\n<p>Moderna says it will manufacture vaccine doses for the Canadian market in its new facility in Laval, Quebec and syringes will be filled in Cambridge, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>News releases from both Pfizer and Moderna say the new mRNA shots will target the LP.8.1 variant, a descendant of Omicron that the World Health Organization was monitoring earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Both Pfizer&#8217;s vaccine \u2014 called Comirnaty \u2014 and Moderna&#8217;s shot \u2014 called Spikevax \u2014 are approved for adults and children six months of age and older.<\/p>\n<p>The provinces and territories are responsible for ordering COVID-19 vaccines and deciding who will get them free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8211; Health Canada has authorized updated COVID-19 vaccines by Pfizer and BioNTech and by Moderna for use this respiratory virus season.<\/p>\n<p>Moderna says it will manufacture vaccine doses for the Canadian market in its new facility in Laval, Quebec and syringes will be filled in Cambridge, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>News releases from both Pfizer and Moderna say the new mRNA shots will target the LP.8.1 variant, a descendant of Omicron that the World Health Organization was monitoring earlier this year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/health-canada-approves-updated-pfizer-moderna-covid-19-vaccines-for-fall\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Health Canada approves updated Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for fall<\/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":[96,18,21,253,252,835,14,15],"class_list":["post-9090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-health-canada","tag-moderna","tag-pfizer","tag-pfizer-biontech","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090","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=9090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9091,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090\/revisions\/9091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}