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| Kids 5-11 years old may soon be given a BioNTech jab to avert a fifth wave of infections |
A member of an expert panel advising the Hong Kong government on Covid vaccines has said that it would likely recommend giving five to eleven-year-old children a BioNTech jab to protect them, as well as other family members, in case a fifth wave occurs.
Speaking on a radio program earlier today, Oct 30, Prof.
Ivan Hung from the
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The idea, he said, is to give the children to get one-third of a dose.
Currently, one dose of BioNTech vaccine is recommended for children 12 years and above.
“So if the delta variant manages to get in and we have a fifth wave as assumed, then there’ll be a problem especially among children who have not been vaccinated,” Hung said.
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The expert also said that 100 in every one million of children aged between 12 and 17 developed myocarditis after vaccination, but around 90 percent of them recovered quickly.
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| Prof Hung says only a third of the adult dose will be given to the youngest age group |
Meanwhile, three more imported Covid-19 cases were added to
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Two of them tested positive on arrival test, a 35-year-old
FDH who came from the
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The man tested positive for the L452R mutant strain while the woman did not have a sufficient viral load to test for variants.
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The third is a 23-year-old FDH from
The three cases took
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