- The British government will decide whether to be eligible for Covid-19 injections this week.
- Nadhim Zahawi said that parents’ consent will be sought to allow their children between 12 and 15 years old to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
- But if children are judged to be “capable,” they can veto their parents’ decision.
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British teenagers between the ages of 12 and 15 will be able to veto their parents and choose to receive the Covid-19 vaccine-once the Covid-19 vaccine is approved for that age group-if they are deemed “capable” to make decisions for themselves, Said the British Minister of Vaccines on Sunday.
Talk to the BBC Times Broadcast On September 5, Nadhim Zahawi, Deputy Secretary of State in charge of the deployment of the Covid-19 vaccine in the British Parliament, said that parents of young teenagers will still be required to agree If the vaccine is released, it is approved for children 12 to 15 years of age.
The British government is A decision on vaccine eligibility for this age group is expected to be made this week.
Zahavi said that even if the parents disagree, if the children are “considered to be capable of making decisions and have all available information,” they can choose to ignore them and receive the injection.
“What you basically have to do is to make sure that the clinician discusses the issue with parents and teenagers. If they are deemed capable of making a competent decision, then the decision will benefit the teenager’s decision to make it,” Zahawi told Time Radio .
The British government has been under pressure to quickly provide Covid vaccines to young people.in a letter The British Medical Journal published an article on September 3, in which doctors, educators and parents called on the British Secretary of Education Gavin Williamson to promote vaccines in schools, “to maximize the vaccination rate of 12-15 year-olds And absorption rate”.
“Children are now returning to school in the context of community infection levels 26 times higher Compared with the same period last year More communicableDelta variant Almost all cases of infection,” the letter reads. “The government has a responsibility to protect children, our wider communities, national health services, and health care workers from the fourth wave of school reopening. ”
The number of daily Covid-19 cases currently recorded in the UK has increased.based on Number of Covid-19 cases since September 6In the past 7 days, at least 249,169 people have tested positive for Covid-19, an increase of 3.6% from last week.according to Vaccination rateAs of press time, 79.8% of people aged 16 and over in the UK have received the second dose of the vaccine, while 88.8% of eligible people in the UK have received the first dose of Covid vaccine.
this U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention It is currently recommended that all people 12 years and older be vaccinated to curb the spread of Covid-19, especially in view of U.S. Covid-19 infections surge. Two injections of Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine are Authorized in May of this year Suitable for American teenagers between 12 and 15 years old.
New York Times It was also reported last week that there are currently about 48 million children 12 years and younger who are not eligible for the coronavirus, which forces some parents to keep their children at home until their age group is approved for the vaccine.
