Jakarta – Children constituted 12.6 percent of the COVID-19 transmission cases in numerous parts of Indonesia, Chief of the Indonesian Pediatric Society (IDAI) Aman Pulungan mentioned.
” The nationwide data programs that kids up to the age of 18 years with confirmed COVID-19 constitute 12.6 percent (of the overall transmission cases),” the IDAI chief noted in Jakarta on Tuesday.
Among the eight individuals exposed to COVID-19 were from the child age bracket, Pulungan noted, including that kids currently also fall in the requirements of people risking of catching COVID-19
Children can fall ill and pass away of COVID-19 based on the comorbidity they experience, he discussed.
” Any person can establish comorbidities, such as obesity, tuberculosis, and hypertension, be it children under 5 and the youth,” he specified.
To this end, the IDAI advises that 10 percent of the kids get vaccinated against COVID-19, he said.
” One of 83 Indonesians, who died of COVID-19, was a kid. This need to draw attention and become a factor to stay vigilant for asymptomatic individuals to perform self-isolation,” he emphasized.
Pulungan kept in mind that kids might transmit COVID-19 to name a few member of the family.
” I suggest that all activities of children in the 0-18 age group need to be carried out online. Avoid children from venturing out of their homes, teach them to stay disciplined in following health procedures, immunize kids, and magnify breastfeeding,” he stressed.
The IDAI commended the government’s policy to immunize kids in the age of 12 and 17 years against COVID-19
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The Indonesian Health Ministry is considering using Sinovac and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines for kids below 18 years of age.
” We are studying vaccines that already have emergency-use authorization (EUA) for youths,” Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin specified throughout an online interview broadcast on the Presidential Secretariat’s YouTube channel here on last Friday.
Sinovac has actually been authorized for people in the age group of three to 17 years, while Pfizer has obtained approval for the 12-17 age, he noted.
The ministry has actually pondered with the Indonesia Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (ITAGI) over conducting COVID-19 vaccination of kids, Sadikin remarked.
The federal government is likewise keeping an eye on how nations in Europe and Asia and likewise the United States are conducting COVID-19 vaccinations of kids, he specified.
Pointing out worldwide data, he remarked that 99 percent of the COVID-19 cases in the under 18 age can be cured.
China has authorized the emergency use of Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine for kids as young as 3, Sinovac Biotech Ltd verified.
Canada, the United States, and the EU have currently licensed the Pfizer vaccine for kids as young as 12, while the UK has just recently authorized making use of Pfizer’s vaccine for kids in the age of 12 to 15 years.
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