The head of a paediatric infectious diseases unit at a Hong Kong public hospital has said his ward is now full of young, unvaccinated Covid-19 patients, urging parents to get their children inoculated to prevent severe symptoms.
Mike Kwan Yat-wah warned on Saturday that the number of children with Covid-19 had risen significantly recently.
“As a frontline paediatrician, I now notice the number of Covid-19 cases is large,” Kwan, who is also president of the Asian Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases, told a radio programme.
“Before, our ward had no patients with Covid-19, now the whole ward is full of children with Covid cases. Some of them are not severe, but they had a high fever of 39 degrees Celsius for two to three days.”
He added that none of the children had received Covid vaccines.
