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Covid vaccine approved for Australians aged from 5 to 11
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IANS | 04 Dec, 2021
Australia's medical regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration
(TGA), on Sunday provisionally approved Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine for
children aged between 5 and 11.
Health Minister Greg Hunt said
the federal government now expects the vaccine rollout for that cohort
to start on January 10 pending approval from the Australian Technical
Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI).
"The vaccine dose
approved by the TGA for children aged 5 to 11 is the same safe and
effective vaccine used for other age cohorts, however is one-third the
dose approved for those aged 12 and over," according to a media release
from Hunt.
"As with other age groups, the use of this vaccine in
children aged 5-11 years should be given in two doses at least 3 weeks
apart."
There are approximately 2.3 million Australians in the 5-11 age bracket.
As
of Saturday, about 88 per cent of Australians aged 16 and over and 67.5
per cent of 12-15 year-olds were fully vaccinated against Covid.
On
Sunday, Australia reported more than 1,200 new locally-acquired
coronavirus cases and eight deaths as the country continues to battle
the third wave of the infection.
The majority of them -- 980
cases and seven deaths were in Victoria, the country's second-most
populous state with Melbourne as the capital city.
The number of
cases of the Omicron variant in Australia has increased to 18 after more
cases were reported in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and New
South Wales (NSW).
Parliament House in Canberra was closed on Sunday after a staffer to Greens leader Adam Bandt, tested positive for Covid.
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