Europe weighs risks, benefits of vaccinating kids against COVID-19


  • World
  • Tuesday, 25 May 2021

FILE PHOTO: Students wearing face masks are seen in the Lycee Buffon secondary school as students return to school, in Paris, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in France, May 3, 2021. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

ZURICH/PARIS (Reuters) - European countries are still deciding if and when to inoculate children against COVID-19 amid questions around safety, supply and the desperate call for more vaccines from hard-hit regions around the world.

After a sluggish rollout, inoculation programmes for the continent's adults 16 years and up are now underway.

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