In Germany, children under 12 vaccinated against Covid
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A 12-year-old girl gets vaccinated at the Ludwigsburg district vaccination center in southern Germany on August 3, 2021. (Illustrative image) © THOMAS KIENZLE / AFP
By: Juliette Rengeval Follow
21 mins
With the return of children to school, the Covid epidemic could see new peaks. And the most exposed to the coronavirus will be children under 12, the category of the population that does not yet have access to vaccines. A particularly difficult situation for children suffering from serious illnesses and their families.
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To curb the epidemic, the German BioNTech has announced that it wants to quickly approve its vaccine for the little ones.
A glimmer of hope in
Germany
for the families forgotten by this pandemic: those who have children who suffer from serious pathologies and therefore particularly exposed to the risks associated with the coronavirus.
Some of these families have decided not to wait any longer and to do everything possible to have their children vaccinated, despite the absence of official authorization from the authorities.
A report from Berlin by
Julien Mechaussie
.
In
Austria
, many children are home-schooled for the start of the school year;
it is a consequence of the pandemic.
In
Vienna
,
Céline Béal.
In
the UK
, authorities are considering the next step to protect themselves from the virus.
Vaccination, third dose, or curative treatment.
At the end of August 2021, the British Medicines Agency approved the use of an anti-Covid treatment, Ronapreve.
Certain European countries, France in particular, authorize it only in a preventive way but the British seem to have each time a small step ahead on the question,
Marie Billon
.
At a time when in
France
, you need a health pass to enter a hospital, access to care for people in an irregular situation is even more complicated.
To realize this,
Alice Rouja
went to Paris to a Doctors of the World reception center.
In a nutshell: viaggio de la speranza
The “Voyage of Hope”, in
Italy
: an expression behind which hides the drama of migrations and of these boats laden with men and women, which regularly dock on the Italian coasts.
Cecile Debarge.
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