As Newfoundland and Labrador prepares to vaccinate children under the age of five, it’s still unknown just how the vaccinations will fit with other childhood immunizations.

Between the ages of six months and five years, children receive a series of different vaccines to protect against a number of diseases such as rubella and smallpox.

They are usually administered through public health clinics, and begin when children are just a few months old.

In terms of those vaccines and the COVID shot, the Department of Health says the COVID vaccine should only be given 14 days before or after other vaccines.

The province’s acting chief medical officer of health, Dr. Rosann Seviour, says it’s still too soon to say if the COVID vaccine will be factored into a child’s regular round of immunizations.

She says she doesn’t know what that will look like yet, noting virus mutations have been an issue.

Seviour says anyone who claims they do know how that will evolve is “pulling your leg.”