{"id":177176,"date":"2021-11-20T00:27:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T18:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=177176"},"modified":"2021-11-20T00:27:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T18:57:19","slug":"canada-approves-pfizer-covid-vaccine-for-children-in-5-11-age-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/11\/20\/canada-approves-pfizer-covid-vaccine-for-children-in-5-11-age-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Approves Pfizer Covid Vaccine For Children In 5-11 Age Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ottawa, Nov 20 (PTI): Canada on Friday became the latest country to authorize the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for children aged between five and 11-years-old.<br \/>\n&#8220;After a thorough and independent scientific review of the evidence, the department has determined that the benefits of this vaccine for children between five and 11 years of age outweigh the risks,&#8221; said an official statement from Health Canada.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The decision follows an application by the companies submitted on October 18 after carrying out a clinical trial among thousands of children in this age group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The vaccine was found to be more than 90 percent effective at preventing Covid-19, and no serious side-effects were identified.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is dosed at 10 micrograms rather than the 30 micrograms used in older ages, and administered as two shots, three weeks apart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A handful of countries including Israel and the United States have so far green lighted Pfizer-BioNTech&#8217;s vaccine for children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">China, the United Arab Emirates, Cambodia and Colombia have also started vaccinating children under 12 but with Chinese vaccines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa, Nov 20 (PTI): Canada on Friday became the latest country to authorize the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for children aged between five and 11-years-old. &#8220;After a thorough and independent scientific review of the evidence, the department has determined that the benefits of this vaccine for children between five and 11 years of age outweigh the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-177176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}