Children aged 5-11 to get 0.2ml of Pfizer vaccine each dose

Children aged between 5 and 11 in Vietnam will be administered with Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine with a dosage of 0.2ml, according to the Ministry of Health.
Children aged 5-11 to get 0.2ml of Pfizer vaccine each dose ảnh 1Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine (Photo: Reuters)
Hanoi (VNA) - Children aged between 5 and 11 in Vietnam will be administered with Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine with a dosage of 0.2ml, according to the Ministry of Health.

The ministry on March 1 issued a decision amending Article 1 of a decision on conditional approval of vaccines for urgent needs in COVID-19 prevention and control.

People aged from 12 will receive 0.3ml of Pfizer each dose.

The Government recently decided to buy 21.9 million doses of Pfizer for children aged 5-11.

As of February 27, Vietnam had administered 193.6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines./.
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