Singapore ‘hopeful’ of extending COVID-19 vaccines to children below 12 from January

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Children below the age of 12 made up about 11.2% of all COVID-19 cases in Singapore on Nov 19, up from 6.7% four weeks ago.

SINGAPORE: Singapore hopes to extend the COVID-19 national vaccination programme to children below the age of 12 in January 2022, said the Ministry of Health’s director of medical services Kenneth Mak.

The proportion of cases of those between 12 and 20 years old has not changed “in the same way”, he said, adding that it “continues to hover” between 4 and 5 per cent, noted Assoc Prof Mak. At the time, four such cases had emerged among the more than 8,000 paediatric COVID-19 cases in Singapore since the start of the pandemic.

 

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This is ridiculous! Children barely get infected due to limited ACE2 receptors. Why would you do this?

During covid19 , some parents crying for vaccination for kids , now some crying why now ? Why emergency to do so ? Why this why that , see ?

Why the rush? Are they in DANGER? Are we in EMERGENCY STATE? Can we have more TEST done. If you respect our decision, why 'corner' and discriminate?

still will have people worry this worry that , its up to them . Still will have many will kpkb ....

Man, I was really hoping for earlier...

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