2nd dose Pfizer vaccine for children 5-11 years to commence soon

…42 new infections detected in 1 day

The rollout of the second COVID-19 dose for children five to 11 will commence this week, and parents have been urged yet again to get their children immunised.
Health Minister, Dr Frank Anthony on Tuesday informed that 4000 children between the ages of five and 11 have already taken their first doses. However, there is still a lot of work to be done to boost these figures.
“We need to do a lot more and encourage more parents to bring their children out to be vaccinated. During this week, we will start administering the second doses. Most persons who got the first dose, after 28 days they can now get the second dose. They should come back to get the second dose,” the Minister announced.
Meanwhile, in the 12 to 17 group, 35,006 doses or 48.1 per cent took one dose. Of this number, 25,647 or 35.2 per cent are fully vaccinated.
“We have vaccination sites in every region and if parents would like their children to be vaccinated, they can come to any one of these sites,” he added.
Adult vaccination is progressing slowly. First doses stand at 442,872 or 86.5 per cent while second doses are at 343,640 or 67 per cent. Additionally, 68,984 booster doses were administered.
Some 860 active coronavirus infections are being monitored across the country. Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) is leading with the highest active positives. On the other hand, there is zero in Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni), owing to the fact that people are not showing up for testing.

New cases
However, new statistics released by the Ministry showed that another 42 new coronavirus infections have been reported thus taking the confirmed cases to 65,698.
The death toll remains at 1256. In addition, 33 persons are in institutional isolation, 824 in home isolation and four in institutional quarantine.
There are 33 hospitalised cases, with 22 of those at the Infectious Diseases Hospital. Three persons are in the Intensive Care Unit.
Additionally, 65,583 persons have recovered while 662,354 tests have been processed to date.
An analysis shows new cases dispersed among five administrative regions, with one three in Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam), 15 in Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara), 12 in Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica), four in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) and eight in Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni).
Region One (Barima-Waini), Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice), Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni), Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) and Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice) did not report any increase in positives.
In the Region of the Americas, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases are pegged at over 162 million with a death toll of 2.7 million. Globally, the confirmed positives stand at over 545 million with more than 6.3 million reported deaths.
If anyone is displaying any of the symptoms associated with COVID-19 or needs any additional information, they are asked to contact the COVID-19 Hotline 231-1166, 226-7480 or 624-6674 immediately or visit www.health.gov.gy.