Key Points From the Ministry of Health’s Virtual Media Conference :
- Senior Paediatric Emergency Medicine Specialist, Dr. Joanne Paul stated that based on trends in other countries the Omicron variant will lead to more children being hospitalized with the virus.
- Dr. Paul also shared that major risk factors that lead to severe disease in children are Obesity and Sickle Cell Disease.
- Dr. Paul indicated that at the moment there are 5 children hospitalized with COVID-19, 3 of whom are critically ill.