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China may give COVID-19 vaccines to under 18
Published on: 2021-06-03
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China may roll out COVID-19 vaccinations among people aged under 18, as the country still faces mounting pressure from imported cases, according to an official of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
 

The information was revealed by Feng Zijian, a deputy director-general of the China CDC and secretary-general of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association, at a parallel session of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Forum on People-to-people Friendship held in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei Province, on Wednesday.
 

After inoculating the over-60 group, the government is considering the vaccination of those under 18, said Feng, who explained that experts are trying to figure out what role young people play in the transmission of the coronavirus, which causes COVID-19.
 

During flu outbreaks, it was usually the children who passed the virus to other family members. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, teenagers usually were infected by other family members, according to Feng.
 

The official said that the way to inoculate teenagers would be different from that of the elderly.
 

正在研究是否为18岁以下儿童和青少年开展疫苗接种

6月2日为止国内新冠疫苗接种已到7亿剂次,当前相关机构正在研究是否为18岁以下青少年和儿童开展疫苗接种工作。
 

在2日下午举办的卫生健康分论坛上,中华预防医学会秘书长冯子健做了《中国新冠疫情防控策略》为主题的发言。冯子健表示,在湖北武汉疫情成功得到控制后,从2020年4月份到现在中国主要面临的是境外病毒输入性传播,采取了限制入境人员数量、入境核酸证明政策等措施。尽管如此,并没有完全阻断境外输入病毒的发生,仍大概有三十余起输入病毒引起的本地传播。在冯子健展示的PPT上,中国的境外输入病例约有10456例,来自154个国家/地区,输入病例数较多的国家为俄罗斯、菲律宾和美国等。输入病毒引起本地传播的方式多种多样,包括接触输入病例或其污染的物品、冷链从业人员职业暴露等;甚至还有境外交通工具比如航空器、运输车辆内部污染导致相关人员被传染等等。
 

论坛上多位专家均表示,疫苗是最终能够终结疫情的唯一有效方式。中国当前疫情态势主要是应对境外输入感染压力,最终防控目标是降低境外输入感染压力,因此中国疫苗接种策略和目标有所不同。
 

冯子健介绍,中国新冠疫苗接种第一阶段是包括高暴露风险一线工作人员,医护人员等重点人群;当前正在进行的是第二阶段,也就是主要对18-59岁的职业人群进行覆盖,这个阶段将在6月底初步完成,此后疫苗接种会重点覆盖老年人。
 

冯子健表示,在老年人群疫苗接种完成之后,会考虑是否对18岁以下的儿童和青少年进行疫苗接种,目前已经开始进行研究和考虑。最重要的考虑因素是儿童、青少年在此次新冠疫情传播中究竟发挥怎样的作用。根据介绍,此次新冠疫情传播和其它流行疾病有一些不同特点,即流感爆发期间,是由儿童传染给家庭成员,新冠疫情期间则是家庭成员传染给儿童。此外,儿童的接种服务方式与18-59岁人群也有很大差距,促进疫苗接种的政策工具也不同的。冯子健表示,“现在正在非常认真、非常积极、非常审慎地研究下一阶段的接种策略、接种政策以及接种服务的提供方式。”

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