Dow Today – Qatar approves Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for children aged 5-11 years

CAIRO, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Qatari Ministry of Health approved the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 years, it said on Sunday.

In November, Gulf states Bahrain and Saudi Arabia approved the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use for children in the same age category.

(Reporting by Yasmin Hussein and Mahmoud Mourad; editing by David Evans)

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