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

Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, regional director of the World Health Organisation - South-East Asia, on Monday said that India has been offered 7.5 million doses of Moderna vaccine through the global health body’s Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) programme.

The first batch of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine donated by the United States of America (USA) arrived at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in Katunayake, Sri Lanka today.

The Health Ministry has granted the approval for the use of US produced Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines as the second dose for those who were administered with the Astrazeneca COVISHIELD vaccine as the first dose.

In a major boost to its vaccine drive, Sri Lanka will receive one million doses of Moderna Covid-19 vaccines next month through the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) COVAX facility, a minister said yesterday.

Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine is effective in 12- to 17-year-olds, the company announced today in a press release. It plans to ask the Food and Drug Administration to authorize the shot for this age group in early June.

The World Health Organization on Friday (Apr 30) said it had listed the Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use.

The U.S. drug regulator gave Moderna Inc clearance to speed up output of its COVID-19 vaccine by letting it fill a single vial with up to 15 doses, with the United States banking on rapid immunisation to stem the spread of the deadly virus.

COVID-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer Inc with BioNTech SE and Moderna Inc reduced risk of infection by 80% two weeks or more after the first of two shots, according to data from a real-world U.S. study released on Monday.

The arrival of Covid-19 vaccines promises a return to more normal life – and has created a global market worth tens of billions of dollars in annual sales for some pharmaceutical companies.