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Pfizer to seek Health Canada approval for COVID-19 vaccine use in kids 12-15 within weeks
Pfizer is planning to submit the necessary documents to Health Canada “in the next couple of weeks” to seek approval for its COVID-19 vaccine to be used in children between the ages of 12 and 15, a company spokesperson has confirmed.In an email to Global News on Sunday, Pfizer spokesperson Christina Antoniou, said the company is “currently working on our submission supporting the use of the vaccine in 12-15 year olds.”“We plan to file this submission to Health Canada in the next couple of weeks,” the email read. A look at when Canada could start administering COVID-19 vaccines to teens, children On Friday, Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech asked vaccine regulators in the U.S.