GEORGE TOWN: Only about one in 5 pupils in national type schools, non secular schools and Tamil national type schools in Penang have been registered for the Covid-19 Immunisation Program for Children (PICKids) to this point.
Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow mentioned solely 19.6% of pupils in national schools have registered for vaccination underneath PICKids, adopted by 16.4% in non secular schools and 15.8% from Tamil schools.
The determine was considerably increased for Chinese national type schools, at 81%.
“The state is asking on all Penangites to step ahead and get vaccinated and take their booster doses instantly.
“At the identical time, dad and mom or guardians are additionally urged to register their kids aged 5 to 11 years to be vaccinated underneath PICKids.
“As of March 3, state Health Department knowledge exhibits that out of the 1.77 million whole inhabitants in the state, 90% have obtained their first dose of vaccine, 86.2% their second dose and 72.7% the booster dose, totalling 993,432 folks.
“Out of the 155,600 kids aged 5 to 11 years in the state, as many as 50% have but to register underneath PICKids.
“With the wave of Omicron infections at present skilled by Penang, vaccination is one of the simplest ways to stop extreme signs and scale back brought-in-dead (BID) instances,” he mentioned in a press release Friday (March 4).
Chow added that national knowledge from the Health Ministry revealed that 91% of BID instances had been unaware that they had been contaminated with Covid-19, and of that quantity solely 9% obtained booster pictures.
On March 3, Penang recorded 2,488 new Covid-19 instances out of the 32,467 detected nationwide.
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