Amsterdam: A top official at the European Medicine Agency said the decision about whether to recommend that the modernum covid-19 vaccine which was passed for children is expected to be the end of next week.
If approved, it will be the first license for the use of shots in children globally.
At the press briefing on Thursday, Dr.
Marco Cavalry, Head of the EU drug regulator vaccine strategy, said the Expert Committee is currently evaluating modern applications to extend the use of the Koronavirus vaccine for children aged 12 to 17 years.
“We hope the committee will reach the conclusion at the end of next week,” he said.
Moderna vaccine was given a green light for use in anyone aged 18 years and over in the European Union 27 countries in January.
It has also been licensed in countries including Britain, Canada and the US, but so far the use has not been expanded with children.
Until now, the vaccine made by Pfizer-Bontech is the only approved for children under 18 years in Europe and North America.
EMA said last week there was a “possible link” between vaccines made by modera and pfizer-bionech to chest and heart cases that were very rare, mostly in younger adult men.
They say the effect is mostly temporarily and that the benefits of vaccination are still far exceeding the risk of Covid-19.
Last week, the president of the European Commission, Ursula Von Der Leyen, said the EU has now provided enough vaccine to immunize 70% of the population of adults and many countries seek to investigate children, although it is at a lower risk of Covid-19.
Although the British regulatory body has authorized the Pfizer-Bionontech vaccine for children, the vaccine advisory group has not recommended that adolescents be immunized.
Moderna has also submitted its vaccine to be licensed for younger adolescents and children in the US.
Many public health officials say rich countries must contribute their vaccines so that their adult population is borne, indicating that millions of people in developing countries with high risk of disease, including health workers and parents, have not received one shot.
In June, who was Director of Dr.
Vaccine Kate O’Brien said that the vaccination children against Covid-19 were “not a high priority” considering that vaccine equipment were very limited globally.
While more than 3 billion doses of Covid-19 shots have been given, less than 2% in poor countries, where the Delta variant is easier to spread now trigger a surge in explosion.