As a summer wave of Covid-19 continues to hit the United States, the US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday signed off on updated Covid-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech.

Moderna Inc. approval for updated COVID-19 vaccines, as a summer wave of the virus is still rolling across the country. Pfizer and partner BioNTech’s Comirnaty vaccine and Moderna’s Spikevax were approved for people 12 years old and up,

The Covid jabs target a strain called KP.2, a descendant of the highly contagious omicron subvariant JN.1 that began circulating widely in the U.S. this year.