Qatar to offer Pfizer vaccine to 12–15-year-olds; quarantine exemption extended

Doha: Children aged from 12 to 15 years are to be offered the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Qatar and the validity for quarantine exemption of all vaccines administered in Qatar will be extended from the previously approved six months to nine months in moves announced by the Ministry of Publish Health today.

The Ministry also confirmed today that all people aged over 30 will be eligible to receive the vaccine after the Eid holiday. Extending the opportunity for children aged 12 to 15 years to take the Pfizer vaccine comes shortly after Pfizer said that its study of the vaccine’s use in participants 12 to 15 years old found that it was ‘safe and extremely effective in preventing COVID-19 cases’, and the US Food and Drug Administration approved the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds in the US.