It is the first time the European Medicines Agency has cleared a COVID-19 vaccine for use in young children.
An earlier real world study had showed effectiveness at preventing symptomatic disease at 94 percent and asymptomatic illness at 92 percent.
This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in the Europe and Africa regions this week.
UK's roll out plan for the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine states that elderly care home residents and their carers, healthcare workers, and those aged 80 and above will be the first to get the vaccine shots apart from frontline health and care staff.
Based on initial data Pfizer’s vaccine has proved more than 90 percent effective in preventing coronavirus whereas Moderna has claimed that its experimental vaccine was 94.5 percent effective, based on interim data from a late-stage clinical trial. Take a look at some of the key points of both the vaccines.