EIGHTY per cent of children hospitalised in the country with Covid-19 infection this month were aged under 12 – and a majority of them had not been vaccinated.
National Taskforce for Combating Covid-19 monitoring committee head Lt-Col Dr Manaf Al Qahtani said 46 children aged between five and 17 were infected with the Omicron variant and admitted to hospitals between January 5 and 20 .