Hong Kong children urged to get Covid jabs as ‘whole paediatric ward full’
Head of paediatric infectious diseases unit at a public hospital says all of the young patients in the ward he oversees are unvaccinated
Mike Kwan Yat-wah and another medical expert said on Saturday that they expected the current wave of infections, which started in April, would peak soon following a recent surge in the number of cases, including children.
“As a frontline paediatrician, I now notice the number of Covid-19 cases is large,” Kwan, who is also president of the Asian Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases, told a radio programme.
“Before, our ward had no patients with Covid-19, now the whole ward is full of children with Covid cases. Some of them are not severe, but they had a high fever of 39 degrees Celsius [102 Fahrenheit] for two to three days.”
He added that none of the children had received Covid vaccines.
Kwan urged all parents to take their children to receive jabs, which were “very safe”, as those who contracted the virus for the first time might become severely ill.