Covid vaccines are set to be tested on six-year-old children and ‘even newborns and pregnant women’ as trials are expanded

AstraZeneca said a trial will begin this month on 300 volunteers aged six to 17

By ALEX LAWSON

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Covid-19 vaccines are set to be tested on children and potentially even newborns.

AstraZeneca, which produces the Oxford vaccine, says it is expanding trials to children as young as six, and The Mail on Sunday can reveal that fellow vaccine maker Janssen, part of Johnson and Johnson, is now looking into testing on newborn babies and even pregnant women.