Italy approves COVID-19 vaccine for children aged five to 11

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Italy’s medicines agency AIFA on Wednesday authorised the use of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for children between the ages of five and 11.

A 12-year-old boy receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Rome, on August 16, 2021. (Photo: AAP)

The news comes a week after the EU medicines regulator EMA took the same step.

AIFA said in a statement that ...

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