{"id":24258,"date":"2021-11-03T18:18:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T17:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=24258"},"modified":"2021-11-03T18:18:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T17:18:52","slug":"parents-unsure-of-vaccinating-children-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/parents-unsure-of-vaccinating-children-against-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents unsure of vaccinating children against COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parents in Albania are hesitating to vaccinate children over 12 years old, against COVID-19. Interest in the first days of open vaccination for this age group has been low.<\/p>\n<p>One of the parents has been vaccinated but is still unsure whether or not they are willing to do the same with their children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been hearing all kinds of things being said about this vaccine. It\u2019s not that simple to decide about your child,\u201d \u2013 he said.<\/p>\n<p>At vaccination no. 6 in the capital city, which attends to about 2000 children, only 10 have shown up to get vaccinated, and they are all over 16.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInterest has been low. Some of the parents are very skeptical about letting their children get the vaccine,\u201d \u2013 said Besar Hyri, a family doctor from the clinical center no.6.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike children, age groups over 60, have been very willing to get their third booster shots.<\/p>\n<p>Many seem to show a preference for Pfizer whereas others lean more towards the Chinese or Russian vaccines \u2013 arguing that they might be safer.<\/p>\n<p>To date, around 31% of the population has been vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/11\/01\/albania-rolls-out-covid-19-vaccine-booster-shots\/\">Albania rolls out COVID-19 vaccine booster shots<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/10\/12\/deputy-dean-supports-return-of-students-in-auditoriums-but-no-binding-decision-on-vaccine\/\">Deputy dean supports return of students in auditoriums, but no binding decision on vaccine<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/09\/29\/albania-to-buy-over-500000-pfizer-jabs-manastirliu-none-of-our-vaccines-have-expired\/\">Albania to buy over 500,000 Pfizer jabs, Manastirliu: None of our vaccines have expired<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"eneu24041\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents in Albania are hesitating to vaccinate children over 12 years old, against COVID-19. Interest in the first days of open vaccination for this age group has been low. One of the parents has been vaccinated but is still unsure whether or not they are willing to do the same with their children. \u201cWe\u2019ve been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":24260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Parents unsure of vaccinating children against COVID-19 - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/parents-unsure-of-vaccinating-children-against-covid-19\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Parents unsure of vaccinating children against COVID-19 - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Parents in Albania are hesitating to vaccinate children over 12 years old, against COVID-19. 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