Happiness: Now children under the age of 12 will also get the vaccine, Pfizer has started a trial

- Pfizer's covid vaccine has already been approved for use in children over 12 years of age in the United States and the European Union.

New delhi date. Wednesday, June 09, 2021

Pfizer, a US company that develops corona vaccine, has begun trials of its corona vaccine on children under 12 years of age. In the first phase, different doses of the vaccine will be given only to the children counted. For this, Fazer has selected more than 4,500 children from 4 countries of the world. The countries where Pfizer vaccine trials are to be performed on children include the United States, Finland, Poland and Spain.

According to Pfizer, testing of the Covid-19 vaccine has been started on a group of children under 12 years of age after selecting small doses of the vaccine in the first phase of testing.

The vaccine is already being given to children over 12 years of age

Pfizer's covid vaccine has already been approved for use in children over the age of 12 in the United States and the European Union. However, this approval is for emergency use only. Pfizer developed the Corona vaccine in collaboration with its German partner Bioentech. The World Health Organization was the first to approve the company's vaccine.

The selection of children between the ages of 5 and 11 for the vaccination trial will begin this week, the company said. These children will be given 2 doses of 10 micrograms. This dose is one third of the vaccine dose given to adolescents and adults. A few weeks later a vaccine trial will be started on children older than 6 months and they will be given 3 micrograms of vaccine.