BOOSTER shots to prevent infections from coronavirus mutations will become the norm in the future, according to a top genome expert in the United Kingdom.

“We have to appreciate that we were always going to have to have booster doses; immunity to coronavirus doesn’t last forever,” said Sharon Peacock, the head of the COVID-19 Genomics U.K.

COG-UK, which was created by Peacock about a year ago in response to COVID-19 and is a consortium of public health and academic institutions, has sequenced some 349,205 genomes of the virus out of a global effort of about 778,000 genomes, the outlet reported.

Just like the annual flu shot, boosters for COVID-19 will likely be needed to combat coronavirvus variants that could occur in the future, said Peacock. (SD-Agencies)