The Directorate General of Health announced this morning, from now on minors aged 16-17 years with certain serious diseases will be able to receive the vaccine.
Only with Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine
Vaccination is opening up to a new category of the population! These are the French aged 16 and 17 years with certain serious pathologies which make them run a “very high risk of serious form”, according to the instructions of the Ministry of Health published on Thursday.
“People aged 16 and 17 suffering from a very high-risk pathology of severe form of Covid-19 are authorized, as of this day, to be vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in a vaccination center”, is it underlined in this document signed by Jérôme Salomon, Director General of Health, and Laëtitia Buffet, Head of “Task force” vaccination. According to health authorities, nearly 800,000 French people are affected by this new directive.
Here is the list of rare pathologies justifying a very high priority vaccination against COVID-19.
