Inoculations of children aged 5-11 reached 8.9% in Cyprus, Christina Yiannaki, the Health Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, said on Saturday after visiting a vaccination center in Nicosia. The Ministry, in cooperation with the Paediatric Society of Cyprus, is operating on specific dates walk-in vaccination centers, dedicated exclusively to children’s inoculations.
Until that moment, on Saturday, around 300 children had received the jab in Nicosia, said Yiannaki, adding that a similar center for children 5-11 will operate next Saturday in Limassol. Total inoculations of children for this particular age group are estimated at around 7,000, the Cyprus Pediatric Society Chairman, Michalis Anastasiades, said.
Yiannaki further noted that 74.7% of the total population received the first jab, 71.1% are fully vaccinated, while the percentage of those fully vaccinated
Source: Cyprus News Agency