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COVID Vaccine for 12+ in India EMA approves vaccine for 12-15 year old children in India, Pfizer vaccine The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has approved the use of the Pfizer-BioNotech Kovid-19 vaccine for children between 12 and 15 years of age. The Pfizer BioNotech vaccine was first approved in the European Union of 27 member states and in December was granted a license to apply to people 16 years of age or older. Addressing a press conference here on Friday, EMA's vaccine strategy manager, Marco Cavaleri, said that the EU regulator had found the necessary data to approve the use of vaccines for children and adolescents and data. Shows that it is highly effective against Kovid-19. He said the decision needed to be approved by the European Commission and regulators from different countries would have to decide whether children under 16 would be vaccinated. Regulators in Canada and the US had already recommended its use for adolescents. The EMA reports that the vaccine was based o...