As Poslovni Dnevnik writes the deputy director of the Croatian Institute of Public Health, Ivana Pavic Simetin, told reporters that the latest batch of vaccines will be arriving in the country in the usual way it has done before. “The vaccine plane arrives on Monday and then distribution starts,” she said.
“What is coming isn’t all for children, there are two boxes for children, the rest of them are for adults, and there will be a total of 48,000 doses for children aged from 5 to 12 years of age. Children between the ages of 12 and 18 are now being vaccinated as adults,” Ivana Pavic Simetin explained.
“Some of the vaccines will remain here at the Croatian Institute of Public Health, while the rest will go off to various county institutes for public health, and from there to the dispensaries. According to the county institutes, everyone will organise their vaccinations for children through pediatric clinics, schools and general practitioners. Where there is more interest, vaccinations will be organised at mass vaccination points too,” she explained, adding that the booster doses don’t apply to children. “For children who are immunocompromised, the third dose applies, and it should be given one month after the first two doses,” she said.
When asked what the interest in vaccinating children is, Ivana Pavic Simetin said: “Parents are inquiring about vaccination, especially parents who have vaccinated children over 12. We see particular interest in parents whose children are chronically unwell, especially if they’re immunodeficient. There is interest, but unfortunately it is not, and it will not be like in some Western countries where more than 50 percent of children over the age of 12 have already been vaccinated,” she said, adding that the vaccination of children will start on Wednesday at the School of Public Health in Zagreb, and will continue on Saturday.
The difference in coronavirus vaccines for children and adults
Regarding the difference between the coronavirus vaccine for children and that for adults, Ivana Pavic Simetin explained that the bottle itself differs in terms of the colour of the cap, and that it is important for doctors to note “that there are 10 doses of vaccine in one bottle and that it should be used within a period of 12 hours.”
“Children get two doses just like adults, but the children’s dose is one third of the adult dose,” she added.
As for the idea of Croatian covid certificates for children, Ivana Pavic Simetin said: “This should be discussed with AKD, but it would be good if we could go for covid certificates for kids.”
A new shipment of vaccines for children, she added, will arrive in Croatia during March next year.
How many children have been vaccinated against the novel coronavirus in Croatia so far?
According to the deputy director of the CNIPH, about 6,400 children between the ages of 12 and 14 across Croatia have now been vaccinated with their first dose, which is about 5.18 percent of that age group. 55,000 young people aged 15 to 19 were also vaccinated.
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