A few of you have asked this question today — here’s what we know.
Currently, children aged between 6 months to under 5 years are eligible to be vaccinated against COVID-19 if they’re immunocompromised, have complex health conditions or disability.
At them moment though, the vaccine advisory body, ATAGI does not recommend children in this age group to be vaccinated against COVID.
That’s because they consider the risk for severe illness from COVID to be “very low” for children in this age group.
However — this could change in the future.
ATAGI says the COVID vaccination for children is “under ongoing consideration” based on data on the disease burden, epidemiology, vaccine supply, new COVID vaccines for this age group, and ongoing data.
