The child dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech medication will be administered to the five to 11 age group, which has the highest incidence rate of the coronavirus in the country by demographic.

Spain will begin to vaccinate children aged between five and 11 years old against Covid-19 from December 15. On Tuesday, the country’s Public Health Commission approved the inoculations among the under-12s after the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for this age group was validated by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), and was backed by the group of experts that is advising the Spanish health authorities.