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France starts giving COVID jab to 12-year-olds

France starts giving COVID jab to 12-year-olds

LEA GUEDJ PERCEVAL Gete, a 12-year-old French boy, is one of the youngest people in Europe to receive a COVID-19 vaccination, and to accommodate his young age, the nurse administering the jab had to use a special child-size needle. His mother brought Perceval to a vaccination centre near Paris on Tuesday, the first day the age of eligibility in France was lowered to 12, because, she said, the more people get inoculated, the sooner pandemic restrictions can be lifted. "I wanted it to be done as soon as possible," his mother, Melanie Gete, said at the vaccination centre in the…
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