coronavirus vaccine on children including six-month-old babies. The US pharmaceutical giant has announced the first volunteers in the early-stage trial were given their jabs on Wednesday.The participants were a pair of nine-year-old twin girls who received the vaccine at Duke University in North Carolina.The paediatric trial will test kids between six months and 12 years of age, Pfizer spokesperson Sharon Castillo said.Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech plan to first test the safety of their two-shot vaccine at three different dosages - 10, 20 and 30 micrograms - in a 144-participant Phase I/II trial.The plan is then to expand into a 4,500-participant late-stage trial in which they will test the safety, tolerability and immune response.
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