Pfizer-BioNTech requests license to use COVID-19 vaccine on children – Roya News English

Pfizer-BioNTech requests license to use COVID-19 vaccine on children – Roya News English

Pfizer-BioNTech are seeking approval to extend permission to use their COVID-19 vaccine on children, according to Sky News Arabia Friday.

The companies have submitted a request to the European Medicines Agency (EMA), Europe's medicinal regulator, to obtain approval to extend permission to use their COVID-19 vaccine on children between the ages of 12 and 15, in a move that could provide the younger and less vulnerable population in Europe with access to the vaccine, for the first time.

The two companies said in a statement Friday that their application to the EMA was based on an advanced study of more than 2,000 adolescents, which showed the effectiveness and safety of their vaccination.