SUPERMAN, CINDERELLA AND MINIONS GIVE CHILDREN COVID-19 SHOTS
| A medical employees member carrying a dressing up seems at a toddler who receives a shot of the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) vaccine at a mass vaccination middle in Prague, Czech Republic, January 8, 2022. REUTERS/David W Cerny |
Superman, Cinderella and Minions had been amongst characters from movies, comics and fairy tales who greeted kids at a COVID-19 vaccination centre in Prague on Saturday to ease their nerves as they got here to be inoculated.
Regardless of a lull in coronavirus infections up to now month, the Czech Republic is attempting to spice up vaccination charges as a result of it’s bracing for the Omicron coronavirus variant. Vaccinations lag different European Union nations.
With kids aged 5-11 now eligible for the vaccine, employees wearing costume at one of many largest vaccination centres within the Czech capital helped kids who got here to be vaccinated.
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“We thought it would be better to have a day just for the kids,” said Nikola Melicharova, a vaccination centre worker dressed for the day as Snow White. “And because kids are usually a bit afraid of vaccinations, we decided for a fairy tale day so that it was a little more pleasant.”
Some 62.4{69439eabc38bbe67fb47fc503d1b0f790fcef507f9cafca8a4ef4fbfe163a7c5} of the population in the country of 10.7 million has been fully inoculated, compared to a rate of 68.6{69439eabc38bbe67fb47fc503d1b0f790fcef507f9cafca8a4ef4fbfe163a7c5} in the whole of the EU, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
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The Czech Republic started giving shots to children aged 5-11 in mid-December. Health Ministry figures show just over 27,000 shots had been administered to this age group by Friday.
Some children cried, but less so while talking to their favourite characters.
“I think it is right (for vaccinations). It is the only way out of the pandemic,” said Jaroslav Kottner, who brought his nine-year-old son to be vaccinated.
