(AFP) The Swiss medicine agency, Swissmedic, approved on Friday the immunization against COVID-19 of children from 5 years of age with the vaccine Pfizer-Biontech messenger RNA, Comirnaty.
“The results of the clinical trials show that vaccination is safe and effective”Among children from 5 to 11 years old, who until now could not be vaccinated, according to Swissmedic.
Comirnaty It is administered in 2 doses of 10 micrograms 3 weeks apart, “Which corresponds to a third of the dose administered to adolescents and adults“, subraya Swissmedic.
A clinical trial “still ongoing with more than 1,500 participants shows that this vaccine against COVID-19 almost completely prevents serious diseases caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus in children from 5 to 11 years old, ”the Swiss agency reported.
So far, only children older than 12 years could be vaccinated.
Al dar green light to vaccinate children from 5 years of age, Switzerland joins Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain.
Canada and United StatesAs well as Israel and Chile, they also authorized the vaccination of children from this age.
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