The first country in the world introduced compulsory vaccination of children against COVID-19

Costa Rica was the first in the world to introduce mandatory vaccination of children from 5 to 11 years old from COVID-19

Costa Rica became the first in the world by a country that introduced compulsory COVID-19 vaccination for children from 5 to 11 years old. This is reported on the website of the local ministry of health.

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Vaccination for this age group will begin in March 2022. The relevant decree was issued by the National Commission on Vaccinations and Epidemiology “in accordance with the principle of the best interests of children and adolescents.”

In October, the authorities announced the purchase of 3.5 million doses of the drug from Pfizer. About 1.5 million of them will go for vaccinations for children, the rest of the doses – for the third doses of vaccinations for adults, wrote the local newspaper The Tico Times.

March, but this did not apply to children under the age of 12.

On November 3, it was reported that the United States was allowed to vaccinate children aged 5 to 11 with a coronavirus drug produced by the American company Pfizer and Germany's BioNTech. Members of the US federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) voted unanimously to have children receive two doses of the vaccine. The first will be one third of the adult dose, and the second will be given three weeks apart.

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