Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, 26 August
Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Linlin
In accordance with the overall deployment of China's new crown vaccination, vaccinations for people aged 12 to 17 are being carried out across the country
The new coronavirus vaccine being used by people aged 12 to 17 in China is an inactivated new coronavirus vaccine approved by the relevant state departments and can be used for people of this age group
In June of this year, the world-renowned journal "The Lancet-Infectious Diseases" published online the safety and tolerability of the new coronavirus inactivated vaccine developed by Kexing in healthy children and adolescents aged 3 to 17 in China And immunogenic double-blind randomized controlled phase I/II clinical study results
"The results of the study show that Kexing's new coronavirus inactivated vaccine shows good safety and tolerability after full immunization in this group of people, and the antibody level after vaccination is better than that of people aged 18 and over
At the same time, Sinopharm Sino Biotech has also completed Phase I/II clinical trials of the new crown vaccine in the 3 to 17-year-old age group in Henan earlier
Recently, the National Health Commission and the Ministry of Education issued a technical plan (fourth edition) for the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in colleges, primary and secondary schools and kindergartens, which emphasized the need to promote the vaccinations of new crown vaccination for eligible students without contraindications and education Departments and schools should actively cooperate with local health departments and disease control agencies to do a good job in the vaccinations against the new crown of the age group, and plan the schedule of vaccination reasonably
In this regard, Wang Huaqing, chief expert of the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's immunization program, reminded that children and adolescents are susceptible to new coronary pneumonia.
In terms of adverse reactions after vaccination, Wang Huaqing introduced that adverse reactions include both general reactions and abnormal reactions
"At present, according to the monitoring and analysis of adverse reactions, the incidence of adverse reactions to children and adolescents vaccinated with the new crown vaccine is not higher than that of adults over 18 years old
In addition, He Qinghua, the first-level inspector of the CDC of the National Health and Medical Commission, specially reminded: "Because the mental development of minors is not perfect, psychogenic reactions are prone to occur
In the monitoring data of the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Wang Huaqing saw individual children and adolescents experiencing psychological reactions after being vaccinated
Before accompanying children vaccinated against the new crown vaccine, Wang Huaqing suggested that parents or guardians should understand the disease knowledge, vaccine knowledge and vaccination process of the new crown vaccine
Focus on the new crown pneumonia epidemic
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