RTL 5minutes – Luxembourg: When will children under 12 be vaccinated against Covid?
Other countries such as Austria or some German Länder have already started to vaccinate children between 5 and 11 years old.
It is then an “off label” use or without authorization to market vaccines, which do not yet have an authorization for this age category. What is not prohibited.
In the United States, the American health authorities have already given their approval. Vaccination of children began in early November. In Israel, too, children are starting to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.
Luxembourg will comply with the opinion of the European Medicines Agency, as confirmed by the Director of Health to our colleagues at RTL: “We are awaiting the opinion of the European Medicines Agency, which should arrive in early or mid-December. Then the vaccine will be delivered to us. It is the same as for adults, only another dosage, and can start.”
The vaccine will be the same as that for adults, but only a third of the dose will be given to children. It will be checked twice at three week intervals.
The defender of the rights of young people and children (Ombudsman fir Kanner a Jugendlecher) believes, however, that children can be able to participate in the decision to be vaccinated or not. They must therefore be properly informed and adapted to their age, underlines Charel Schmit. No pressure should be accepted on children about vaccination, one way or the other.
The report in Luxembourgish from our RTL colleagues: