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Covid-19 vaccines extended to children aged six months

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Covid-19 vaccines will be made available for children as young as six months from next Monday. It follows a National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) recommendation that Covid-19 vaccines be given to children aged between six months and four years with underlying conditions that put them at higher risk of severe Covid-19.

NIAC also recommended that all children in this group should be offered vaccines to "protect them from severe disease" and "provide extra protection from the rare risk of serious illness from Covid-19".

Children in this age group will require three doses of the vaccine with an interval of three weeks between dose one and two and at least eight weeks between dose two and three.

The vaccine for these children is a smaller dose than those aged between five and 11. It is also recommended that the Covid-19 vaccine is separated from the administration of other vaccines by 14 days.

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