Recently, many places in China have taken the lead in vaccinating children between the ages of 3 and 11 against the coronavirus. The United States, and Malaysia are also actively preparing for this matter:
Many places in China have begun to vaccinate children between the ages of 3 and 11 against the coronavirus.
In order to achieve herd immunity as soon as possible, many places in China have begun to vaccinate children aged 3 to 11 against the coronavirus. At present, vaccination has started in Hubei Province, Hainan Province, Changde in Hunan, Jinhua in Zhejiang and other places, and is about to start in Fujian, Fuyang, Anhui and other places.
According to the "Sina News Center" report, many cities in Fujian, including Xiamen and Putian, have begun random checks to implement vaccination measures for people aged 3 to 11 years old, increase the vaccination rate of children in schools and kindergartens, and ensure that "everything should be planted."
The Hubei Provincial Health Commission also stated that in order to further improve the coverage of coronavirus vaccination and build a herd immunity barrier as soon as possible, on the basis of continuing to vaccinate people over the age of 12, Hubei Province has begun to vaccinate people between the ages of 3 and 11. Coronavirus vaccine.
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Currently, the vaccines approved for vaccination for people aged 3 to 11 years are all the inactivated vaccine , which is produced by Beijing Biotech, Wuhan Biotech and Beijing Sinovac Zhongwei. They need to receive 2 doses of the vaccine, at least three weeks apart.
Schools (kindergarten) can organize and arrange collective vaccination, and children who are not in school can make an appointment with a community organization or individual to go to a nearby vaccination point for vaccination. Children aged 3 to 11 years old need to be accompanied by a guardian throughout the vaccination process, and can only be vaccinated after being evaluated by a doctor and signing an informed consent form.
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The third phase clinical trial of children’s Sinovac vaccine
will be launched in Malaysia
Malaysia has been selected as the site for the third phase clinical trial of children’s Sinovac vaccine. The experiment will start at the end of October this year.
Datuk Aaron, the Second Deputy Minister of Health of Malaysia, pointed out that the results of the first and second phase clinical trials showed that the Sinovac vaccine can be used safely and that vaccinated children and adolescents can produce a strong immune response.
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Moderna said
its vaccine has a strong immune effect on children aged 6 to 11 years old
Yesterday (October 25), Moderna said that the coronavirus vaccine has a strong immune effect in children aged 6 to 11 years old. A strong immune response developed in children aged According to " Reuters ", the dose of Moderna vaccine injected into children is 50 micrograms, which is half the dose used for adults.
Moderna noted that the safety profile of the vaccine in children was good and consistent with what was seen in earlier clinical trials in adolescents and adults. A total of 4,753 children participated in this trial. The results showed that the severity of side effects was mostly mild or moderate. The most common side effects were sleepiness, headache, fever and pain at the vaccination site.
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Confirmed cases of children in the United States surge
Pfizer is ready to go
The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association counted the confirmed cases of coronavirus in children across the United States, and released them yesterday (25th) latest report.
Data as of October 21 show that a total of about 6.3 million children in the United States have been diagnosed, accounting for about 16.5% of the total number of confirmed cases. In the week ending October 21, there were about 120,000 new confirmed cases in children in the United States, accounting for about a quarter of the total new cases.
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The American pharmaceutical company Pfizer said on October 7 that it has officially applied to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval to vaccinate people between the ages of 5 and 11 with the Pfizer vaccine.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will announce the results of whether to approve the Pfizer vaccine for children under 12 years old at Singapore tonight at 8:30 pm. Earlier on October 20, the White House also issued a statement saying that doses of the Pfizer vaccine were ready to be used to vaccinate 28 million children aged 5 to 11 years old, and vaccination would begin as soon as approval is obtained.
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Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong :
Children may be vaccinated early next year
Although data shows that children’s infections rarely turn into severe cases, since there is currently no vaccine protection for children under 12 years old, many The parents were very worried.
In response, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in a national speech on October 9 that Singapore is currently paying close attention to the children's vaccine trials in the United States. Once the trial is successful and approved, Singapore will arrange vaccination for children as soon as possible, which is likely to be early next year.
Yesterday was the first day for all primary school students to return to school.
New confirmed cases increased by 36%
After not arriving at school for nine consecutive days, yesterday was the first day for all primary school students to return to school.
From noon the day before yesterday to noon yesterday, the number of cases among children aged 0 to 11 in Singapore increased by 267, 71 more than the previous day, an increase of 36%.
This is unlikely to be a campus infection. Yesterday was the first day back to school. Even if you were infected immediately, you would not be able to test positive immediately.
What is more likely is that the child was infected during the nine-day period, developed symptoms one or two days before the start of school, and the positive cases were screened out by parents taking the initiative to test before returning to school.
The above is about primary school students. In terms of young children, the PCF kindergarten infection cluster on Senja Road in Zhenghua originally had 23 cases, with 2 new cases and a total of 25 people; 13 of them are kindergarten students, 5 are staff, and 7 are household members of confirmed cases. member.
There were 79 inpatients aged 0 to 11 years old in the general isolation ward, an increase of 9 people from the previous day, an increase of 13%.
Let’s continue to observe.
