The HAS recommends the Pfizer vaccine “because of its vaccine efficacy against the majority variants currently circulating and its satisfactory tolerance profile”. The government could start vaccination of 5-11 years from Wednesday.
Le Monde with AFP
At the heart of the fifth wave of Covid-19 in France and while the Omicron variant actually fears a sixth after the end of the year, the High Authority of Health (HAS) approved, Monday 20 December , the vaccination of children aged 5 to 11 years.
“Due to its vaccine efficacy against the majority variants currently circulating and its satisfactory tolerance profile, HAS estimates that the Pfizer vaccine can be used from the age of 5,” said the sanitary authority.
After the favorable decision of the National Ethics Advisory Committee (CCNE), made public on December 17, this is the second opinion that the government was waiting to begin vaccination of all children from Wednesday “if All is well, “said the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, at a Maintenance to the raw online media , Saturday.