Concerned Statement About the Number of Cases in Children

a long lasting Distance Learning After the process, the children are finally back in school. Even though parents have been waiting for this day for a long time, their concerns about COVID-19 still stand. Unfortunately, these concerns do not seem to be in vain.

An expert on the subject; children in their statements test positivity substantially increased, vaccination, distance and hygiene rules are still very important, therefore vaccination of children said it should. Here are the explanations:

“Children should be vaccinated too”:

The person who made the statements was the Head of the Department of Pediatric Intensive Care at Ankara University Faculty of Medicine and the Chief Physician of Ankara University Cebeci Hospital. prof. Dr. Tanil Kendirli. Referring to the increasing number of cases in children in his alarming statements, Kendirli said that the children’s group is now also talking about COVID-19. should be taken into account told. He made the following statements about the areas allocated in the hospital:

“The areas reserved for COVID-19 in our hospital are full. However, we did not need to allocate very large spaces in pediatric patients as in adults. Currently, we have 8 beds for newborn and child infection. they are full. We also have a positive patient in the emergency room waiting to be hospitalized. Since the beginning of the epidemic, 21 thousand patients in the 0-18 age group who applied to the children’s hospital urgently, were tested and 2 thousand 500 of them were positive. The positive case was around 11.8 percent from the beginning, but recently We can say that the rate of positivity has increased by one fold..”

Referring to vaccination over and over again, Kendirli said not only to families, but also to vaccinate children suggested.

The positivity rate increased to 30%:

Again, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine Head of Pediatric Infectious Diseases Department Prof. Dr. Ergin Çiftçi drew attention to the increase in cases and said that the opening of schools, the end of the holidays and therefore the increase in human activity were effective in this increase. In addition normally 8 percent seen as 30 percent of test positivity until Farmer stating that he came; mask, distance and hygiene highlighted its importance. Farmer is also like Kendirli vaccination of children should stated.