The authorities had begun to vaccinate adolescents between 12 and 17 years old, but decided to lower this age at 5, Sunday.
Le Monde with AFP
There too, the campaign will be able to start. After the United States, Israel gave its green light on Sunday, November 14, to the vaccination of children aged 5 to 11 with doses of the Pfizer-Biontech Cvid-19 vaccine, hoping to curb the pandemic .
“The Director General of the Ministry of Health has decided to follow the recommendations of the Commission to study this issue and to authorize vaccination for children aged 5 to 11”, announced a statement from the Ministry of Health . The date of the beginning of the vaccinations will be announced in the coming days.
The Hebrew State had been one of the first countries to launch last December, a vast vaccination campaign for an agreement with the Pfizer pharmaceutical giant having allowed it to quickly access millions of Paid doses, in exchange for data on the effect of large-scale vaccine.
This campaign allowed double vaccination of 5.7 million of the nine million Israelis, including more than 80% of adults. And the authorities launched a new campaign for the administration of a recall dose awarded more than four million people.
Several countries are already vaccinating children
The authorities had also begun to vaccinate adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17, but decided Sunday to lower this age to 5 years in the wake of clinical trials of Pfizer, a campaign in that direction of the United States. United and recommendations from a panel of Israeli scientists. According to the clinical trials led by Pfizer on thousands of children, the vaccine has demonstrated a 90.7% efficiency against the symptomatic forms of the disease.
“The majority of experts considered that the benefits of this vaccination for children would be more important than the risks, which led to the decision to authorize the vaccine for these ages,” says the statement of the Ministry of the Ministry. Israeli health.
In addition to avoiding themselves sick, expected benefits also have a decrease in the number of classes, and a possible reduction in the transmission of the epidemic in the general population.
CVIV-19 vaccine injections to children aged 5 to 11 have begun last Tuesday in the United States. In addition to the American giant, China, the United Arab Emirates, Cambodia and Colombia have begun to vaccinate children under 12 years old, but with Chinese vaccines.