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Egypt authorizes Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for 12 to 15 year-olds

Published 11/28/2021, 12:41 PM
Updated 11/28/2021, 12:46 PM
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A vial labelled with the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine is seen in this illustration picture taken March 19, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A vial labelled with the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine is seen in this illustration picture taken March 19, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

CAIRO (REUTERS) - Egypt authorized on Sunday Pfizer (NYSE:PFE)'s COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 12-15, the cabinet said in a statement.

The step effectively lowers the minimum age of eligibility to receive the two-shot vaccine in Egypt, which was 15 years old previously.

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we should not interfere in the nature's system
Ok smaties. If covid was made in the lab, then it is not nature. Chance is very high this covid is man made by mating viruses in the lab.
lol than please, if u have an abscessed tooth or something else that's relatively easy to deal with with modern medicine... please don't interfere with nature's system and die of something easily preventable.
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