Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony yesterday said that one child is currently a patient at the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit.
This was disclosed during his COVID-19 update where he stated that authorities will continue to monitor children who are COVID-19 patients. Last week, the minister reported that since the beginning of the pandemic over 1,500 children between the ages of one month and 14 years have been infected with the novel coronavirus.
On Tuesday, Anthony noted that of the number of persons currently hospitalised with COVID-19, three are children and only one of the three is in the ICU. “Three are children, two are in the wards, so they’re not in the ICU, they are in the wards and their prognosis looks quite good and we have one child right now in the ICU,” he reported.
The minister mentioned that authorities have seen a slight decrease in hospitalisation overall even as 61 persons are currently in the hospital with 14 persons in ICU. Further he assured that the Ministry will continue to monitor the children who are hospitalised.
“So we continue to monitor these children to see how they’re progressing to make sure they’re getting all the meds that are required and all the other measures that should be taken are being taken and we are hoping that they would be able to get better and be out of the hospital shortly,” Anthony said.
