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.