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August 18th, 2021 
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The UK’s medicines regulator (MHRA) has approved Moderna’s mRNA coronavirus vaccine for 12-to-17 year-olds.
Prior to its approval, some UK schools had already started scheduling Covid vaccinations for 12- to 15-year-old children.
On Tuesday, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, which gets funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates fundation, said that Moderna’s Spikevax jab was suitable for use in children aged between 12 and 17.
The agency’s chief executive Dr June Raine announced the decision declaring that the “vaccine is safe and effective in this age group.”
RT reports: While Moderna’s mRNA jab has been given the green light by the MHRA, the government advisory body the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation will make the final decision on whether the vaccine will be rolled out for this age group.
The widening of vaccines available to younger people comes after the committee decided on August 4 to include 16-to-17 year-olds in the UK’s Covid inoculation campaign, ahead of children returning to school in September.
The JCVI recommended administering just one dose of Pfizer-BioNTech’s jab “after carefully considering the latest data” that a single shot would “provide good protection against severe illness and hospitalization”. Further advice on a second dose will be made later, it added.
Last month, the European Medicines Agency recommended extending the Spikevax vaccine to children aged 12 to 17 within the EU. The jab is still pending approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for administration in this age group.
Health authorities in the UK were initially hesitant to offer children a coronavirus vaccine due to reports of rare heart inflammation following the administration of mRNA vaccines. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a statement earlier this summer detailing that there were over a thousand incidences of the heart conditions myocarditis and pericarditis, particularly in adolescents and young males, reported from among the more than 177 million doses of the vaccine administered across America.
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