Prognosis
Hong Kong Experts Back Covid Shots Starting at Six Months of Age
- Both Sinovac, BionTech vaccines seen as safe for infants
- Recent death of infant from Covid raised urgency to lower age
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A Hong Kong panel of health advisers said children as young as six months old should be offered Covid-19 vaccines from BioNTech SE and Sinovac Biotech Ltd. in an effort to protect the city’s youngest residents, according to Lau Yu-lung, the chairman of the Scientific Committee on Vaccine Preventable Disease.
The committee unanimously approved both Sinovac and BioNTech vaccines for children aged six months and above, Lau told reporters on Monday evening.