Healthy infants, children and adolescents aged <18 years are not recommended to receive COVID-19 vaccine

COVID-19 vaccine is not recommended for healthy infants, children or adolescents who do not have medical conditions that increase their risk of severe illness. This is because the risk of severe illness was is extremely low in this cohort over the course of the pandemic, and benefits of vaccination are not considered to outweigh the potential harms.^1,2