The UK’s medicines regulator and scientific advisers still have to look “very carefully” at whether COVID jabs can be offered to children, the vaccines minister has said. Appearing on Sky News, Nadhim Zahawi was asked why the UK has not followed in the footsteps of the European Medicines Agency, which has recommended the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine be extended to children aged 12 to 15. Zahawi replied: “Our own regulator has not yet approved giving vaccines to children. “You have to make sure the vaccines are incredibly safe before you give them to children.” Zahawi said the Pfizer jab has also been approved by regulators in the United States and Canada for use on 12 to 15-year-olds. He said the UK’s own Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises UK health departments on immunisation, would have to look “very carefully” at …