Countries across Europe pursue different vaccination strategies for children as some have already vaccinated thousands and some are limiting the rollout
The European Medicines Agency approved the use of Pfizer-BioNTech's lower-dose vaccine on the five-11 age group last month.
One region in Italy is sending in clowns and jugglers to clinics, France and Germany are targeting only the most vulnerable kids, while Denmark has been administering shots even before the specially-designed vials and syringes have arrived. Inoculating children and young people, who can unwittingly transmit Covid-19 to others at higher risk of serious illness, is considered a critical step towards taming the pandemic. In Germany and the Netherlands, kids now account for the majority of cases.
A lack of data on the effects on children was given as the main reason for the hesitancy, while a third thought that children would be less likely to get infected and 9 percent worried about long-term side-effects.