A leading virologist says 12 to 15-year-olds should be vaccinated, as case rates continue to rise.
All teenagers should be vaccinated to help stop dangers of developing long-Covid, a virologist has warned.
The UK's four chief medical officers have now been asked to have the final say about what happens, and to consider the wider impact on schools and society. Dr Stanton said he did not believe the JCVI had taken into account how case rates could cause "huge disruption" in schools, adding that if schoolchildren were not vaccinated, the population would never meet herd immunity."We've got this huge disruption to the children themselves and there is the risk those infected children will transmit the virus amongst themselves and take it out into the community," he said.
Doctors identified that children with chronic heart, lung and liver conditions were at much higher risk than healthy children.Dr Stanton spoke as eight more people were confirmed to have died with Covid, according to figures published by Public Health Wales on Monday. Merthyr Tydfil is the area with the highest case rate in Wales, with 744.3 cases per 100,000 people in the past seven days.Hospital figures up to last Friday showed that, although case numbers are two-thirds higher than at the same point in the second wave, hospital numbers are 30% of what they were.
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