A new survey conducted by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has revealed that 18.1% of the current COVID-19 cases are among children between the ages of 0-15.
Briefing the media in Accra on Wednesday, Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, Director-General of GHS said the service will deepen its vaccination drive to help contain the upsurge.
“Currently, of the Accra cases, about 18.1% on average are among children aged between 0-15 years, obviously these are unvaccinated children, so 18% of this number are in children.
“So, if you look at the age distribution you can see that 0-5 is 3.8%, 6-10 years about 6.9% of the cases between May and June and then 11-15 years about 7.4%, so that together makes up the 18.1%.
“The youth becomes a critical group that we need to take a look at, and because most of them cannot be vaccinated now, the protocol has to be stepped up. The youngest child who had was six months, the sibling came from school and infected the family including the baby, so that is the situation we have now,” Dr Kuma-Aboagye said.
