Australia aims to vaccinate children under 12 against COVID-19 from January

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MELBOURNE: Australia, quickly becoming one of most-vaccinated nations against COVID-19, will likely start administering the shots for children under the age of 12 in January, officials said on Sunday (Nov 14). Health Minister Greg Hunt said medical regulators are still reviewing the health and safety data

MELBOURNE: Australia, quickly becoming one of most-vaccinated nations against COVID-19, will likely start administering the shots for children under the age of 12 in January, officials said on Sunday .

"The expectation that they have set is the first part of January, hopefully early January," Hunt told the Australian Broadcast Corporation's Insiders programme."But they're going as quickly as possible."Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE shot for broad use in the five to 11 age groupArmy Lieutenant-General John Frewen, Australia's COVID-19 Taskforce commander told The Age newspaper that Australia has secured the necessary supplies.

Australia's high vaccination rates were key to its decision to partially reopen international borders this month for the first time since the start of the pandemic, despite ongoing Delta variant outbreaks in the most populous states, New South Wales and Victoria.

 

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