Moderna becomes first to start trialing Covid-19 jab on kids aged 6 months to 11 years

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US pharmaceutical firm Moderna has commenced trials of its Covid-19 vaccine on kids ranging from just 6 months to 11 years old, the youngest so far to receive any Covid jab.

On Tuesday, Moderna announced it had given the first doses of its jab to children in the Phase 2/3 trial, called the KidCOVE study. The trial, in partnership with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), intends to recruit 6,750 children, aged between 6 months and less than 12 years. 

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