PARIS, December 18 (Reuters) – France could kick off the vaccination against Covid-19 for all children on December 22 in the afternoon, subject to the green light from the health authorities, Olivier Véran said on Saturday.
Vaccination is currently open in France to children aged 5 to 11 likely to develop a severe form of COVID-19 or living in the entourage of immunocompromised or vulnerable people not protected by vaccination.
After a favorable opinion from the National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE) on an expansion of the vaccination of all children, France is now awaiting the recommendations of the High Authority for Health at the beginning of the week and of the steering committee for the strategy. vaccine next Wednesday, in the morning.
“If all goes well, on the 22nd afternoon, we will start the vaccination of children in centers adapted for children”, declared the Minister of Health on France Inter, reaffirming that the vaccination of children would be done on the basis volunteering. (Gwénaëlle Barzic report)
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