Pfizer says its Covid jab safe for children aged 5-11

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The trial results are the first of their kind for children under 12, with a Moderna trial for 6-11 year olds still ongoing.

"In participants five to 11 years of age, the vaccine was safe, well tolerated and showed robust neutralising antibody responses," US giant Pfizer and its German partner said in a joint statement.

Both the Pfizer and Moderna jabs are already being administered to adolescents over 12 in several countries, as well as to adults around the globe. The side effects were "generally comparable to those observed in participants 16 to 25 years of age", it added. The US regulator, the Food and Drug Administration , said in a statement earlier this month it would "carefully" review emergency authorisation requests for vaccines for under -12s, a process it expected to take "weeks rather than months".

 

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