Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada Congress Medical Unit Dr. Shekar called on children and parents to make a 2-minute videos, audios, role plays or songs where children are asking parents and elders to get vaccinated and send it to www.vaccinateKarnataka of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committe before July 1.
Speaking at Congress Bhavan, Mallikatte here Poojary said the best 100 will be chosen and they would be provided with tablets. The Central Government started vaccinating free after Supreme Court’s order. The third wave is anticipated around November and children would be affected by the same, aver experts, said Poojary.
He said that even people who have got two dose of vaccines are in danger of getting infected. And hence government should see that the Covid positivity rate goes down below 5 % as soon as possible. In the State, there are 64 lakh children below the age of 5 years and 1.1 crore children between the age group of 6 and 18 years. It is estimated about 1.5 lakh children might be affected and the vaccine is yet to be implemented as it is testing stage still, he informed.
He said that according to experts the severity in children will not be high and it is time that children make their parents take vaccination because if parents are vaccinated children have less risk of being infected. The Central Government should also mull.on vaccinating children now, he added.
He also called upon to fill all the job vacancies at taluk and district level as well as set up and upgrade children’s wards. Since children asymptomatic preparedness should be optimum and care should be taken of children who have multi-system inflammatory syndrome. We have only 3000 medical experts in the State, which is not enough, he rued.