In Russia, cases of hospitalization of sick children with COVID-19 in intensive care units have been identified. On Monday, October 18, the infectious disease doctor, Doctor of Medical Sciences Nikolai Malyshev told about this.
“There are cases when children are hospitalized in intensive care. Rare, still, thank God, rare, but there are already fatal cases, “he said at a press conference” COVID-19 and children “in the news agency”National News Service“.
The specialist also clarified that the children’s vaccine against coronavirus will have significantly less reactogenicity, while retaining the protective function.
On October 16, the director of the Gamaleya Center, Alexander Gintsburg, announced that the coronavirus vaccine for children could be called Sputnik M. The letter M stands for the word “small”.
On October 12, Russian Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko pointed to an increase in severe cases of coronavirus among young people. He clarified that among all cases, 12-13% are children from six to 17 years old.
On July 24, the chief physician of the Leader-Medicine medical center, pediatrician, virologist Yevgeny Timakov said that vaccination against COVID-19 can be shown primarily to children from 14 to 18 years old. According to him, the body of children at this age is developed almost like that of adults, so it is necessary to protect their reproductive organs from the virus.
A large-scale vaccination has been taking place in Russia since January. Citizens are vaccinated free of charge and voluntarily. Five vaccines against coronavirus have been registered in the country: Sputnik V, which became the first vaccine against COVID-19 in the Russian Federation and the world, as well as Sputnik Light, EpiVacCorona, EpiVacCorona-N and KoviVak.
All relevant information on the situation with the coronavirus is available on the websites stopcoronavirus.rf and access to all.rf, as well as the hashtag #WeWe areTogether. Coronavirus hotline: 8 (800) 2000-112.