Israel hopes to administer the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine to children aged 12 to 15 from May, after a study showed its efficacy for the age group, health officials said Thursday. Israel has already given the two recommended shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to more than half of its 9.3 million residents, the world’s leading pace per capita. It has offered inoculations to all residents 16 and above, the group currently approved to get the vaccine. But Pfizer-BioNTech said Wednesday their vaccine showed 100 per cent efficacy against the coronavirus in 12- to 15-year-olds, and planned to submit its data on the age group to US regulators for approval. Speaking to Israel’s army radio on Thursday, health ministry director-general Hezi Levy said the ministry wanted to begin inoculating under-16s as early as May. “We are seeing a rise in the number of children who are hospitalised, and we are seeing children without symptoms but who suffer from complications,” Levy said. “The risk from the vaccine is much lower.” The head of Israel’s pandemic response task force, Nachman Ash, told Kan radio that health officials were waiting for the US Food and Drug Administration to...