The CDC Director Rochelle Wolensky comes after careful consideration from US drug regulators on Tuesday after CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices supporting the use of the vaccine for children in this age group.

There are over 28 million children ages 5 through 11 will be eligible for the shots and the drive will be commenced soon to administer vaccine to them.

President Biden issued a statement calling the decision “a turning point in our battle against COVID-19,” and said the federal government has purchased enough of the low-dose children’s vaccine “for every child in America.”

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This is a long-awaited report from Social Care Committee, Health, the Science and Technology Committee, which also includes MPs from all parties.

The government approach supported by scientists was to control the situation and in effect achieve herd immunity by infection, report said.

“There was a delay in introducing the first lockdown, costing lives but there had been successes too, particular the vaccination programme, termed as one of the most effective initiatives in UK history,” the report said.

Over 150-pages report that shed light on variety of successes and failings over the course of the pandemic which took over 150,000 lives to date and is described by the MPs as the “biggest peacetime challenge” for a century.

Tory MPs Jeremy Hunt and Greg Clark, who chair the committees, said that due to unprecedented nature of pandemic it was impossible to get everything right but still UK has managed to combine some big achievements with some big mistakes.

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The authorities, however, is yet to accept certificates issued from India as valid proof.

London’s visa rules are under constant review and the UK High Commission here said it was in dialogue with the Indian Government to break the impasse after Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla threatened reciprocation if the “discriminatory” regime was not reversed. PM Narendra Modi today called for international travel to be made easier through mutual recognition of Covid vaccine certificates by countries, a the Tribune report said adding that basically, the UK has problems with certificates issued by Indian public authorities as well as with the vaccine app Cowin. This means Indians fully vaccinated with Covishield on reaching the UK still have to undergo 10 days of quarantine, besides at least two RTPCR tests.

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