Children aged 5 to 11 years will be offered 2 doses of the coronavirus vaccine.
JCVI advises a non-urgent offer of two 10 mcg doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine (Comirnaty®) to children aged 5 to 11 years of age who are not in a clinical risk group.
What about natural immunity?
As of February 2022, approximately 75% of children and adolescents had serologic evidence of previous infection with SARS-CoV-2, with approximately one third becoming newly seropositive since December 2021.
These findings illustrate a high infection rate for the Omicron variant, especially among children