On the afternoon of December 11th, the State Council Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism held a press conference to introduce the recent situation of epidemic prevention and control and vaccination in COVID-19.
A reporter asked, at present, children under the age of 12 in China have carried out large-scale vaccination work. What are their adverse reactions from the current situation?
Wang Huaqing, chief expert of immunization program of China CDC, said that it is very important to do a good job in monitoring the adverse reactions of Covid-19 vaccine during the vaccination process in Covid-19, including the monitoring of children aged 3-11 who were concerned just now. According to the results of the analysis as of December 3rd, the overall occurrence of children’s adverse reactions is relatively stable, and there is no abnormality. Among the reported adverse reactions, more than 95% are general reactions. In addition, there are some abnormal reactions, coupling reactions and psychogenic reactions. In the abnormal reaction, most of them are allergic skin rash.
In the report of adverse reactions of vaccination in the whole population, the incidence of serious adverse reactions is less than one in a million, and the incidence of serious adverse reactions in children aged 3-11 is lower than that in adolescents and adults. Follow-up monitoring and analysis of adverse reactions should be done to ensure the smooth progress of vaccination.