Children and adolescents in African countries should also be vaccinated for COVID-19

Affiliations

• ¹ International Research Center of Excellence, Institute of Human Virology Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria [email protected].
• ² Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
• ³ Department of Pediatrics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Cape Coast School of Medical Sciences, Cape Coast, Ghana.
• ⁵ International Projects Unit, The Aurum Institute, Accra, Ghana.
• ⁶ Department of Health Policy and Management, New York University School of Global Public Health, New York, New York, USA.
• ⁷ Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.
• ⁸ Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London Medical School, London, UK.
• ⁹ NIHR University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK.
• ¹⁰ Center for Global Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
• ¹¹ Center for Infectious Diseases, Stellenbosch University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.