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It will only offer the covid vaccine to young people with vulnerable health
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The UK has decided do not massively vaccinate children and adolescents under 18 years of age. Thus, the covid-19 vaccine will only be offered to minors with disabilities neurological, with Down syndrome, with immunodepression problems and with serious learning problems, as announced this Monday by the ministro Nadhim Zahawi in the British Parliament. All these minors – from the age group between 12 and 17 – will receive the vaccination of Pfizer. In fact, the Executive of Boris Johnson expands this selective vaccination, since now in the country, and according to the vaccination plan, young people from 16 and 17 years They can only be vaccinated if they have a vulnerable health or pathologies that put them at high risk of contracting a serious covid. Now this measure will also apply to minors from 12 to 15 years.
The decision, agreed within the framework of the Joint Committee for Vaccination (JCVI), has been made considering that compared to adults, children have a much lower risk of becoming seriously ill from covid.
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“We will offer the vaccine to the most vulnerable population and thus we will all be safer,” said Zahawi. According to data provided by the British Government, fewer than 30 children who contracted the virus as of March died. Yes, those 17-year-olds who are 3 months away from turning 18 will be included in the vaccination program.
The UK decision contrasts with that taken in USA and Canada, where the population aged 12 to 17 years is already being vaccinated, and with that of the European Union, which plans to immunize this population group shortly. In the case of SpainThis will happen this September, coinciding with the start of the school year.
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