At least 42 children aged 5 to 11 years in Hannover of Germany vaccinated against Covid-19 accidentally at a higher concentration dose, intended for adults. Experts, however, reassure, emphasizing that no serious side effects are expected.
As stated on Monday night (03/01) by its leader Hanover Health Service Marlene Graf, possible side effects are local reactions and fever. “From a medical point of view, it was an overdose, which, however, is not expected to have negative consequences,” she said. Mrs. Graf and added that the parents of these children have already been informed by the regional administration by telephone and e-mail.
THE Regional President Stephen Krach stressed, however, that such a mistake should not happen, even if it does not have serious side effects for children’s health. “It will not happen again. “But all the procedures have to be re-checked in order to find out how the error occurred,” he said. Mr. Krach.
Children 5 to 11 years of age normally receive one-third of the normal dose of the vaccine.
In December, three children under the age of 12 in North Rhine – Westphalia were mistakenly vaccinated with Moderna vaccine, while emergency use permit for this age group has been granted only to BioNTech / Pfizer vaccine.
In his now confirmed cases SARS-CoV-2 in Germany 30,561 were added in the previous 24 hours, increasing the total number of infections to 7,238,408, announced today Tuesday (04/01) the Robert Koch Institute, the country’s epidemiological surveillance body.
The deaths of 356 patients due to its complications COVID-19 have raised the death toll from a new coronavirus pandemic in the country to 112,579 to date, according to the same source.
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