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WARSAW, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Poland will use AstraZeneca's
COVID-19 vaccine only for people aged 18-60, the Polish
prime minister's top aide said on Tuesday, following a
recommendation from the country's medical council.
Europe's medicines regulator approved the vaccine developed
by AstraZeneca and Oxford University for use on people over the
age of 18 on Friday, but said there were not yet enough results
for people aged over 55 to determine how well the vaccine will
work.
"Yesterday evening, the medical council submitted
recommendations regarding the AstraZeneca vaccine, on the basis
of which it was decided that it will be used in Poland for
people between the ages of 18 and 60," Michal Dworczyk, who is
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki's top aide and is in charge of
Poland's vaccination programme, told a news conference.
Poland's decision follows recommendations by medical experts
in Germany and Austria that the vaccine should be given only to
people aged between 18 and 64.
(Reporting by Alan Charlish and Pawel Florkiewicz; Editing by
Kirsten Donovanand Timothy Heritage)
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