French Health Minister: COVID-19 vaccines should work against new strain of virus


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  • Monday, 21 Dec 2020

FILE PHOTO: French Health Minister Olivier Veran, wearing a protective face mask, listens to the speech of the French Prime Minister about France's vaccine strategy in the fight against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), before a debate at the National Assembly in Paris, France, December 16, 2020. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

PARIS (Reuters) - French Health Minister Olivier Veran told Europe 1 radio on Monday that current COVID-19 vaccines should work against a new strain of the virus, recently found in the United Kingdom.

"In theory, there is no reason to think that the vaccine should not be effective," Veran said.

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