Africa-Press – Lesotho. The Ministry of Health says it is continuing to vaccinate children between the ages of 12 and 17 and received 100,620 drops of Pfizer vaccine on Wednesday in the area of people who have not been vaccinated for the second time.
This was stated by Health Ministry Spokesperson Ms ‘Mateboho Mosebekoa’ at a press conference held at the branch premises on Thursday. Mosebekoa said they appealed to parents and guardians to return the children to the immunization centers according to the dates written on their immunization cards.
“The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education and Training, under the auspices of the Covid-19 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, have decided that children should go to school full time in all classes.
The use of the vaccine and compliance with the rules and regulations of Covid-19 will help reduce the rate of infection and high prevalence, hospital admissions and help children to go to school, ”he said.
He pointed out that children are being vaccinated with Pfizer vaccine only because in-country vaccines are not allowed to vaccinate children between the ages of 12 and 17 until now.
Meanwhile, in the weekly reports of disease control there he said in the fourth week, the tests performed for Covid-19 virus were 9,341 while this fifth week was 6,025 and the result the total for these two weeks was 385,525.
Let’s say in the fourth week on the tests done, the infections were 117 while in the fifth week they were 114 and overall increased to 32,361, so by this fifth week the disease rate has dropped dramatically.
“The number of people who got infected and recovered in the fourth week was 639 while this week they were 816 and their number has risen to 22,629 so it is a 70% improvement.
In the fourth week the number of unhealthy patients was 550 and they are still as numerous as this week, this number has dropped as people are recovering, ”he said.
In terms of diseases, Mosebekoa said in the fourth week there were four of them this week, so this brings the total number of diseases caused by the disease since its onset to 695 which is 2.1% and this is We are seeing an increase in the number of diseases compared to the last two months, last December and this year in January.
He said the prevalence of the infection was 2% in the fourth week while this week is still the same and the country is still safe as it is still below 5%.
“At the border there were 13,897 people who were tested for the fourth week and 20 were diagnosed with the virus, a total of 14,036 while this week it was 15,117 where 13 were diagnosed with a total of 15, 195, so everything is back to normal as people are no longer as crowded as in recent days, ”said the Worker.
He added that the number of hospital admissions for people diagnosed with the disease in the fourth week had dropped to 8% while this week it had risen by one percent.
He pointed out that the total number of visitors this week in the fourth week was 827,603 while this week there were 13,612 and this is a total of 841,215 which is 51%.
“On top of this, the total number of 12- to 17-year-olds who vaccinated were 2,910 while those who vaccinated in the first phase alone were 57,994. The target set by the country is to vaccinate 240,922 children and this shows that we are still a long way off, ”he said.
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