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Vaccinations against COVID-16 in children 19-5 years old start on December 11. Registration was supposed to start two days before that date, but referrals are available from today. There are four ways to register a child for vaccination.
- Registration of vaccinations against COVID-19 of children aged 5-11 has started
- The first e-referrals were issued on Sunday
- Children will be given the Comirnaty vaccine from Pfizer / BioNTech
- There are four registration methods to choose from
- In Poland, there are over 5 million 11 thousand children aged 2-600.
- More information can be found on the Onet homepage
Vaccinating children 5-11. Referrals available now
Vaccinations against COVID-19 for children aged 5-11 are to start in Poland on December 16. According to the original announcements, referrals were to be issued two days before this date. However, the government decided to accelerate the process.
– Next Sunday and Monday (December 12 and 13 – editorial note) we will be issuing orders for children in the electronic system – announced on Friday Minister of Health Adam Niedzielski.
Indeed, some parents are already finding active e-referral for vaccination today.
The first batch of vaccines for children is to arrive in Poland on December 13.
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How do I register my child for COVID-19 vaccination?
Adam Niedzielski also explained that registration is to be done in the same way as for adults, as well as for children aged 12-17. There are four possible ways.
- phone for a 989/XNUMX free helpline (XNUMX)
You will only need the child’s PESEL number. It is not required to provide a telephone number, but if you do, you will receive an SMS confirming the date and place of vaccination.
- e-registration at patient.gov.pl
Electronic registration is possible in two ways: through a Trusted Profile and without its use. In the first case, you must log in to the Trusted Profile and select one of the available dates. The system will suggest a few of the closest, available at vaccination points close to your home address, but you can also search for another, convenient date and place of vaccination. In the second case, you do not need to log in to the Trusted Profile. Just go to the website https://pacjent.erejestracja.ezdrowie.gov.pl/auth and choose the path “Registration without a Trusted Profile”. Here you must enter the child’s name, PESEL number and your telephone number. Then you will receive an SMS with the code that you enter in the next step. Now choose a convenient vaccination date. You will receive confirmation via SMS to the provided phone number.
See also: Patient Online Account – how to set up and use IKP?
- contact with the selected vaccination point
You can also enroll your child for the COVID-19 vaccination at a selected vaccination point. The map and contact details of the available vaccination sites are available at https://www.gov.pl/web/szczepimysie/mapa-punktow-szczepien.
- SMS
If you want to use this form of registering a child 5–11 years old for vaccination, send an SMS under the number 664 908 556 or 880 333 333 with the following text: SzczepimySie. The automatic recipient will guide you what data you need to provide for the save to be successful. You will have to provide the child’s PESEL number and the postal code of the place of residence, thanks to which the system will select the next vaccination date at a point close to your place of residence.
- Dr. Stopyra on vaccination of younger children: there is one serious contraindication
Vaccinations for children 5-11 years old “safe and effective”
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommended the BioNTech / Pfizer vaccine for children aged 5-11 years on November 25. The EMA decided that the benefits of using this preparation in children 5+ outweigh the risks, especially in diseases that increase the likelihood of a severe course of COVID-19. Soon after, the preparation was approved by the European Commission.
- Dr. Sutkowski: It’s not true that children always have COVID-19 mildly
On December 10, Deputy Minister of Health Waldemar Kraska announced that vaccination of this group in Poland would start on December 16. – It is over 2 million 600 thousand. children – he added.
Many experts in Poland spoke of the need to vaccinate younger children.
– The vaccine for children is safe and we know this not only from clinical trials before its introduction to the market, but also because the FDA approved the vaccine a few weeks ago and already several million children in the US aged 5-11 are vaccinated. We know that millions of administered doses do not cause adverse reactions to vaccination – said Dr. Lidia Stopyra, head of the infectious diseases and paediatrics department of the Hospital. Żeromski.
Dr. Michał Sutkowski, president of Warsaw Family Physicians, emphasized in an interview with PAP that vaccines are “effective and safe”. – The research on their safety, which was done by the manufacturer, was conducted many months longer than the research on vaccines for adults, and was conducted in many places around the world. These studies have shown that there are very few adverse reactions to vaccinations and those that are NOPs are very mild, he said.
Do you want to test your COVID-19 immunity after vaccination? Have you been infected and want to check your antibody levels? See the COVID-19 immunity test package, which you will perform at Diagnostics network points.
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