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1. Malaysia begins administering the COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 years using the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
   2022-02-04 01:06:09 (First version)
2. Malaysia begins administering COVID-19 vaccines for children between the ages of 5 and 11 years using the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
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