Where children under 12 are being vaccinatedA girl gets a dose of the Cuban-made Soberana-02 vaccine in Havana on August 24, 2021. Chile , China, El Salvador and the United Arab Emirates have also approved vaccines for younger children. While parents in Britain generally need to authorize vaccination for children under 16, children can overrule vaccine-hesitant parents if a clinician considers them "competent" to do so. In May, when some high-income countries began vaccinating children and other low-risk groups, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said they were "doing so at the expense of health workers and high-risk groups in other countries." While no countries appear to have categorically ruled out inoculating younger children so far, vaccine hesitancy among policy makers could play a part in countries apparently uncertain about doing so.

Source: CNN September 17, 2021 09:22 UTC