One third of Czech people aged 16 to 29 registered for vaccination

In nine days, more than a third of all young people aged 16 to 29 registered for vaccination against covid-19, and by Sunday there were over half a million of them. Almost 117,000 of them received the vaccine and about 25,000 have completed the vaccination. This follows from an overview of vaccination data up to 13 May, published by the Ministry of Health. In total, over half of the entire population was registered for vaccination by Sunday.

People of the age category for whom vaccination is newly started are most interested right at the beginning. For example, people over the age of 55 who started reporting on April 28, almost 56 percent signed up in the first ten days. In the first month of registration, 65 percent of them increased.

In other age categories, the interest after ten days and a month was always slightly lower than in the elderly. In all groups over the age of 45, more than half of the population of this age signed up in the first ten days. For people aged 30 to 34, it was about 35.5 percent, in nine days of registration of the last group from 16 to 29 years about 34 percent.

According to experts, so-called collective immunity needs to be created in order for the virus not to spread in the population. In such a state of vaccination, the virus does not have enough people who can continue to become infected and gradually disappears. For each disease, this proportion varies, with researchers estimating this to at least 70 percent for coronavirus.

For more contagious variants that could overcome antibodies after infection or vaccination, this may be even more. Among the persons who make up this collective immunity, it is thus possible to include those who have recently suffered from the disease.

About 42.2 percent of the population and nearly 51 percent of people over the age of 16 who can be vaccinated are vaccinated with at least one dose. Vaccination in the 12-16 age group could start at the end of July, according to Sunday's statement by Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (YES). According to the Minister of Health Adam Vojtěch (YES), vaccination of children under the age of 12 is not expected yet, because vaccines are not approved for them.

Source: CTK