Health Ministry: More than 400,000 children in Malaysia caught Covid-19 in 2021, wrong to assume vaccinating adults will protect them | Malay Mail

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Health Ministry: More than 400,000 children in Malaysia caught Covid-19 in 2021, wrong to assume vaccinating adults will protect them

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 23 — A total of 410,762 children in Malaysia, aged 17 and below, contracted Covid-19 this year, compared to 12,620 children in 2020, according to the Ministry of Health .

“I think it has to do with the Delta variant. We assume the Delta variant is the dominant variant,” said Dr Nik Khairulddin Nik Yusoff, an infectious diseases paediatrician working at Raja Perempuan Zainab II Hospital in Kota Baru. Deputy Health director-general Datuk Dr Hishamshah Mohd Ibrahim, who was also present, said that new information surrounding the disease is pushing health experts to change their initial presumptions, such as that children will not need to be vaccinated against Covid-19.

 

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