The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the updated Covid-19 vaccines on Thursday, August 27. The approval from the FDA will allow manufacturers to begin shipping doses to pharmacies and doctors’ offices across the country.

Food and drug regulators have approved Moderna, Novavax-Sanofi and Pfizer-BioNTech’s updated Covid vaccines, the companies ⁠said on Thursday. Their statement comes after ​an advisory panel recommended that the shots should target ⁠the dominant XFG variant.