TamilEurope rolls out Covid vaccine for kids aged 5-11
16 December 2021, 10:46 am
A health worker prepares a dose of COVID-19 vaccine at Paulista Avenue in Sao Paulo, Brazil on July 25, 2021. (Xinhua/Rahel Patrasso/IANS)
Even as the Omicron variant continues to spread, European nations including Germany, Hungary, Greece, and Spain have started vaccinating children as young as five and upto 11 years of age, against Covid-19 from Wednesday.
The vaccine administered will be of lower dose than the Pfizer jab for over-12s. It also comes in a paediatric vial with an orange cap to distinguish it from the purple-capped vials for older ages, the Daily Mail reported.
The European Union’s medicines watchdog European Medicines Agency, last month, approved the Pfizer-BioNTech shot for five to 11-year-olds. Denmark and Austria began inoculating younger kids in November.
The US was the first country to start vaccinating small kids, and it has inoculated more than five million children aged five to 11.
As soon as we offered the vaccine appointments, they were pretty much all snapped up, Jakob Maske, a Berlin-based doctor and spokesman for Germany’s association of paediatricians, was quoted as saying.
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