The Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris) already authorized the COVID-19 vaccine for minors from 5 years.
Although no statement has been issued, the information appears in the section ‘Vaccines authorized for emergency use and its main characteristics‘ from their website.
It was last March 3 when the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech was authorized for emergency use from 5 years.
Cofepris warns that the dose and composition of the vaccine for minors between 5 and 11 years of age are different from the immunization for those over 12 years of age, although it does not specify them.
According to the undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo Lopez-Gatellthe Federal Government has no resistance or opposition to the vaccination of minors.
However, it has maintained that the vaccination strategy against COVID-19 prioritizes age groups at higher risk of the disease.
Until the moment Mexico I only know vaccine to the minors between 12 and 17 years old with comorbilidades such as obesity, diabetes, asthma and Down syndrome.
The authorization of the vaccine for children 5 years and older was given from a protection trial for the immunization of a minor in Oaxaca.
The lawyer Alma Franco processed last December an injunction for the vaccination of her son Jorge, who is 10 years old.
Despite the fact that he was granted the vaccination against COVID-19, Health authorities refused on at least three occasions to give him the dose on the grounds that the dose to be applied was unknown.
But in its official letter 04505 on the case, Cofepris detailed that two vaccines of 10 micrograms each must be supplied, with an interval of 21 days, doses reported by the FDA since October, when it authorized the Pfizer/BioNTech immunization for children of 5 to 11 years.
With information from López-Dóriga Digital and Excelsior