The Covid-19 pandemic wreaked havoc across the world and took the lives of millions of people. The whole world was under lockdown for a long time. In such a situation, the question arises whether the world is ready for the next pandemic? This question becomes more important when new variants of Corona are emerging. Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology have developed a new nanovaccine, which claims to provide broad protection against all major Covid-19 variants and can also protect against new variants of coronavirus that may emerge in the future.
The Wuhan Institute team was once blamed for causing the COVID-19 pandemic. It is said that the coronavirus originated from this lab in Wuhan, China. Now this lab has claimed that its current vaccines are capable of preventing COVID-19 infection and reducing mortality, but they do not provide complete protection against all variants. According to a report by the South China Morning Post, the team that developed this new nanovaccine has created an intranasal nanoparticle vaccine that combines coronavirus epitopes and the blood protein ferritin.
Researchers say the vaccine promises to provide protection against multiple variants such as Delta, Omicron, and the WIV04 variant identified in Wuhan in 2020. “The ongoing and future pandemics caused by SARS-CoV-2 variants and mutations underscore the need for effective vaccines that can provide broad protection,” the researchers wrote in an article published in June in a peer-reviewed journal called ACS Nano. “Our nanovaccine targets conserved epitopes of pre-existing neutralizing antibodies. It may be a potential candidate as a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine providing broad protection,” they added.
Let us tell you that the World Health Organization and global scientists have investigated the origin of COVID-19, most of which have come to the conclusion that this virus can spread from animals to humans. At the same time, last year the head of the US intelligence department said that there is no evidence that the COVID-19 virus was created in the Chinese government’s Wuhan research lab.
In this century, apart from COVID-19 and the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is also a coronavirus-borne disease that has infected thousands of people since 2012. Researchers believe that the continuous mutation of the coronavirus will continue to give rise to new variants, some of which may be highly infectious and cause a pandemic or global crisis in the future.