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Bahrain will vaccinate adolescents aged 12-17 with two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, state news agency BNA said, citing the country’s National Medical Task Force for Combatting the Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Tuesday.
The decision by the health ministry’s vaccination committee followed recommendations by the World Health Organisation’sStrategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunisation and theUnited States’ Centre for Disease Control, BNA added.
A guardian must grant approval and be present during the vaccination, BNA reported.
Bahrain had authorised six types of vaccines, by China’s Sinopharm, Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE, AstraZeneca Plc, Johnson & Johnson, and Russia’s Sputnik and Sputnik-Light.