“The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorizes the emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 in boys and girls. The authorization is based on the FDA’s comprehensive and transparent evaluation of the data, which included input from independent advisory committee experts who voted overwhelmingly in favor of making the vaccine available to children in this age group. .
Peru
On January 13, in that country the Ministry of Health (Minsa) acquired batches of Pfizer vaccines to immunize children between five and eleven years of age, under some guidelines and restrictions of the authorities.
Costa Rica
On January 10, in this Central American country, immunization began for children between the ages of five and 11, who suffer from a disease that would put them at risk if they turn out to be infected with the SARS-Cov-2 virus.
Spain
Since December of last year, Spain received the first batch of vaccines for this age group, vaccination that began that same month for children between five and 11 years of age, with diseases that put them at risk.
U.S
The United States began vaccinating children between the ages of five and 11 against COVID-19 last November 2, a new phase of the immunization campaign that Joe Biden described as a “milestone”, with 28 million new eligible children in the country. .
Uruguay
On January 12, vaccination against the virus began for children from five to 11 years old, the only age group that remained without authorization to receive the dose.
Other countries that already apply the immunizer to boys and girls are:
*Chili
*Canada
*China
*United Arab Emirates
*Portugal
*France
*Denmark
This Friday began the application of vaccines to boys and girls between the ages of five and 11 in Sao Paulo (Brazil), after reluctance for several weeks by the federal government headed by Jair Bolsonaro.
On December 16, the country’s health regulatory agency approved the administration of Pfizer’s vaccine. However, the decision outraged the president, who has since complained about pediatric vaccination and has said he will not let his 11-year-old daughter receive the vaccine, warning of possible side effects.