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On Aug 26, 2022, Pfizer and BioNTech announced that they had applied to the European Medicines Agency to have their omicron BA.4/BA.5-adapted bivalent COVID-19 vaccine authorised as a booster dose. The companies submitted an equivalent application to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Aug 22. The vaccine combines mRNA coding for the spike protein of the Wuhan strain of SARS-CoV-2, which is the basis of the original Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, with mRNA coding for the spike protein of the omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants.

Starting on Sept 8, households under lockdown were permitted to send one member out for two hours every two days to buy daily supplies after providing a negative nucleic acid result from within 24 hours.

Palm Springs and GT Molecular have started to test for monkeypox in the city's wastewater, officials announced on Tuesday.

From Aug 8 to Aug 14, the secondary copper throughout of East China Nonferrous Metal City in Linyi stood at 12,900 mt, up 1.97% in the week. From Aug 8-12, the weekly average price of 1# copper cathode was 62,063 yuan/mt, up 1,757 yuan/mt or 2.91% from the previous week.

PUTRAJAYA: From Aug 1, chicken prices here will be set at RM8.50 per kg, the cheapest in the market, says Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim.