On April 4, 2022, Dr. Chakrarat Pittayawong-anon The director of the Division of Epidemiology, Department of Disease Control, announced the situation of COVID-19 that Songkran was expected this year that the number of severely ill patients and deaths were not very high. The elderly need at least 60% of the third injection, asking them to take the elderly to get vaccinated close to home, while children aged 5-11 have received the first dose 45.5%, increasing continuously.
Dr. Chakrarat said that the situation with the Covid-19 infection began to spread among children. especially the group of young children found to increase For children aged 0-4, the Omikron wave had 27 deaths, more than 23 in the previous wave, in which the omikron is highly contagious. family infection Especially families with poor observation of young children. will make it too late to detect that there are symptoms
“There are 3 deaths among children aged 5-9 years, aged 10-14 years, which is lower than the previous wave, which found 9 and 13, respectively. Children aged 0-14 years, the previous wave was higher. while the mortality rate per 100,000 people Because this ripple spreads a lot and quickly. to small children with congenital disease causing the mortality and morbidity rates of children aged 0-4 years to increase. For the deaths of children aged 0-14 years, both the April 2021 and January 2022 ripples total 104 cases. It was found that those with congenital diseases were at higher risk than those without congenital diseases. Therefore, parents are requested to closely monitor and observe the symptoms of children with congenital diseases. If there is even a slight illness or someone in the house is a patient or has been exposed to high risk A child who has started to get sick must be rushed to the doctor as soon as possible. especially children aged 0-4 years,” said Dr. Chakrarat.
for the COVID-19 situation It was found that the morbidity and severity of the disease in young children 0-6 months were at high risk groups. Those who are sick will have more severe symptoms and death than other age groups under the age of 5 years, while 5-12 years of age have relatively few deaths. Especially this wave is only 3 cases, less than 0.01%, so those aged 5 years and over should be vaccinated to help prevent serious illness as well.