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Specially formulated Pfizer vaccines for young kids might arrive by the end of January 2022 (Eagle News) – Vaccines to be used for the vaccination of children aged 5 to 11 could be delivered before the end of the month but the vaccination of this age group could experience delays, according to vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. Galvez, the chief implementer of the National Task Force Against Covid-19, said that the vaccines for minors […]
Children on French public transport will soon have to wear a face mask from the age of six upwards, the government decreed Saturday, as part of its latest measures against coronavirus. Masks had previously been compulsory from the age of 11, but Paris is tightening regulations given the rapid spread of the Omicron variant. Children aged six and older will have to don a mask on all means of public transport within national borders from […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Pfizer announced Friday that it wants to test a third dose of the Covid-19 vaccine in the under-fives, as the low dosage such small children can handle may not offer the same protection that older children enjoy from just two shots. The company does not expect the change to affect its plans to file for emergency use authorization in the United States in the first half of next year. […]
(Eagle News) – Pfizer-BioNTech has already submitted its application for emergency use authorization (EUA) for the use of its vaccines to children aged 5 to 11 years old, and is now being evaluated by the Philippine vaccine experts’ panel, according to Food and Drug Administration chief Undersecretary Eric Domingo. Pfizer’s application has already been forwarded to the country’s vaccine experts for their evaluation as of late last week. Domingo said that Pfizer claims its […]
by Ania TSOUKANOVA Agence France Presse KIEV, Ukraine (AFP) — Three-month-old Misha has spent 10 days in a Kiev paediatric hospital — including three in intensive care — due to pneumonia triggered by Covid-19. He is one of an influx of young patients to the infectious diseases hospital in Ukraine’s capital, which has seen the coronavirus pandemic hit children much harder in recent months. “It’s difficult when your baby suffocates, it’s very scary,” says […]
by Issam AHMED Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, D.C., United States (AFP) – Scientists say they have proven what many people fortunate enough to grow up with theirs have known all along: Grandmothers have strong nurturing instincts and are hard-wired to care deeply about their grandchildren. A new study published in the Royal Society B on Tuesday is the first to provide a neural snapshot of the cherished intergenerational bond. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers […]
Reminds parents not to expose their children below 12 years old to COVID danger after death of 2 year old who got COVID after mall visit (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte instructed the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases to come out with rules that would not allow minors, especially those below 12 years old, to go to malls and other closed spaces so that they would not be exposed to […]
BOGO, Philippines (AFP) — Thousands of children in the Philippines were allowed to return to classrooms Monday for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, as a pilot re-opening of schools got under way. While nearly every country in the world has already partially or fully re-opened their schools to face-to-face learning, the Philippines has kept them closed since March 2020. Kindergarten teacher Zyrex Damayo said he was “a bit nervous” […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States immunized around 900,000 children aged five-to-11 against Covid in the first week the Pfizer vaccine was authorized for them, a White House official said Wednesday. Roughly 700,000 more have made appointments at pharmacies, White House Covid coordinator Jeff Zients told reporters. “The program is just getting up to full strength,” he said, adding most of the shots were given in the last couple of days alone. There […]
by Karine PERRET Agence France Presse LOURDES, France (AFP) — Catholic bishops in France agreed Monday to sell part of the Church’s extensive real estate holdings to compensate thousands of victims of child sex abuse at the hands of clergy. Church officials have been under intense pressure to recognise and indemnify victims after a landmark French inquiry confirmed extensive sexual abuse of minors by priests dating from the 1950s. An independent commission will evaluate […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The World Health Organization on Wednesday called for the urgent development of a vaccine against a bacterial infection responsible for nearly 150,000 stillbirths and infant deaths each year. A fresh report by the UN health agency and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found that the impact of Group B Streptococcus infection (GBS), which is estimated to live harmlessly in the intestinal tracts of up to a third of […]
(Eagle News) — Taguig City started its COVID-19 vaccination rollout for the rest of the children aged 12 to 17 years on Tuesday, Nov. 2, ahead of the scheduled Nov. 3 rollout of the pediatric vaccination for the rest of the country. Minors aged 12 to 17 with no comorbidities can go together with their parents or guardians to the city’s mega vaccination hubs so they could be inoculated against COVID-19. The Taguig City […]
