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German Health Minister Jens Spahn has urged states to reopen vaccination centers as pressure grows to administer booster shots. Meanwhile, the world has passed five milion COVID deaths. DW has the latest.
Some German states are allowing pupils in schools to ditch face masks. But there's a row over whether that will put children at risk and fuel a Covid spike.
Germany to offer COVID-19 vaccination to children
The researchers carried out trials on a group of around 2,000 adolescents, half of which were given two doses of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine and half a placebo.
Of the vaccinated group, none of the individuals contracted COVID-19 while 16 children in the control group did. Those tested suffered only mild to moderate reactions, the study said.
The results of the study had been made available to the EMA, dpa reported.
What are German medical officials saying?
Despite the eagerness of German politicians to start vaccinating children, the decision about who gets access to the doses is up to the country s vaccine commission, StiKo.