RISHARD KHAN
rishard.khan@guardian.co.tt

No ap­point­ments will be nec­es­sary for chil­dren to re­ceive their dose of the Pfiz­er-BioN­Tech's COVID-19 vac­cine from Wednes­day, ac­cord­ing to Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh.

He said 13 sites around the coun­try have been iden­ti­fied, and will be up and run­ning from Wednes­day—with the ex­cep­tion of the Di­vali Na­gar site, which will be­gin on Sun­day.

The health min­is­ter al­so is re­mind­ing the pub­lic that on­ly chil­dren be­tween 12 and 18 will be al­lowed to re­ceive these dos­es.  He urged par­ents to get their chil­dren vac­ci­nat­ed.

Min­is­ter Deyals­ingh warned that if the Delta vari­ant of con­cern cur­rent­ly is cir­cu­lat­ing in the pop­u­la­tion, chil­dren will bear the brunt of it.

Cur­rent­ly, the three chil­dren who are bat­tling COVID-19 are ward­ed in the In­ten­sive Care Unit.

Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Roshan Paras­ram re­port­ed to­day that the re­sults of their ge­net­ic se­quence tests are not yet in.  The tests are seek­ing to de­ter­mine if the chil­dren are in­fect­ed with the Delta vari­ant.