Tag: Children

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has approved the use of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 12 to 17.

As the COVID-19 vaccination drive for people above the age of 30 is on the move at present in the country, authorities are considering vaccinating children below the age of 18.

Medical specialists have warned that a new disease called “Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children’ was spreading throughout the country and requested parents to take extra care of their children.

China has approved the emergency use of a Covid-19 vaccine for those as young as three, the drugmaker confirmed Tuesday, making it the first country to offer jabs to young children.

The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children, a discovery Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as heartbreaking on Friday.

In the past two weeks two global superpowers have had to face an unsettling reality - census results in the US and in China indicate that both countries are likely to start shrinking in population much sooner than they thought.

U.S. regulators authorized Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for use in children as young as 12 and said they could begin receiving shots as soon as Thursday.

Children from a number of schools in and around Colombo have been infected with the Coronavirus.

While top three winners in all the three categories were awarded SLR 100,000, SLR 75,000 and SLR 50,000 respectively, all the 60 finalists received cash awards, desktop computers, and other gifts

Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech SE began testing their Covid-19 vaccine in children under 12, with hopes of expanding vaccination to that age range by early 2022, the U.S. drugmaker said on Thursday.