Child COVID infections less compared to senior citizens : DDGHS

The Ministry of Health claims only a low percentage of children are infected by the coronavirus in comparison to senior citizens and immuno-compromised individuals.

Quoting present statistics, Deputy Director General of Health Services, Dr. Hemantha Herath said children are less likely to contract COVID-19 and suffer from complications and therefore, noted that they have decided not to expose children to the vaccine.

He said that since they do not have adequate data to support that children face serious complications, they have delayed administering vaccines to certain groups of children.

However, he added that if research findings and data support the need to vaccinate children, then they will not hesitate to administer the vaccines.