The Ghana Health Service has expressed concern over the rise in Covid-19 among children between the ages of 0-15.
According to the service, data available indicates cases involving children in Accra have increased from 18 percent to 20 percent in June.
Addressing the press on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, the Director-General of the Service, Dr. Patrick Kuma Aboagye stated that the average daily cases are 133.1 mostly at schools and workplaces.
“Now for the first time we are having increases in children under 15; that is 10-14, and children between age 0-5 use to be less than 1% but now we can see that the numbers are going up as far as the cases are concerned,” he said.
“So this tells you that we are having some challenges with the case. And these are unvaccinated that’s why we having such outbreaks in school,” he added.
Dr. Aboagye noted that his outfit will engage the National Immunisation Advisory to make provisions for the protection of children.
“We have the National Immunisation Advisory groups which look at all the variables of safety and advise the country that it is about time we gave children under 15 vaccines and of course the availability. We will engage the team to find out if it is time to get children vaccinated,” he said.
Ghana currently has 1,308 active cases of the virus, of which 1,023 are in the Greater Accra Region
In total, Ghana has recorded 164,541 cases with 1,448 deaths.
Ghana has also administered 16,752,032 doses of the coronavirus vaccine.
Children, however, are not part of the vaccinated groups yet.
The health service has revealed that there are 7.2 million people fully vaccinated, representing 22 percent of the population, and over one million people have received booster shots of the vaccine.
Over 10 million people have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
