The number of COVID-19 vaccines given to people aged 18 years and over is 184,762,975 doses, of which 1st dose: 70,944,763 doses; Nose 2: 69,373,364 doses; Additional dose: 14,650,864 doses and third dose: 29,793,984 doses
Up to now, 47/63 provinces and cities have reached 95% coverage of 2 vaccines against COVID-19; The remaining 16/63 provinces and cities have the coverage rate of nose 2 from 90% to less than 95%.
The number of COVID-19 vaccines given to children aged 12-17 years old is 17,065,163 doses, of which 1st dose: 8,751,884 doses; Nose 2: 8,313,279 doses.
Up to now, 57/63 provinces and cities have the coverage rate of 2 vaccines against COVID-19 over 90%; The remaining 6/63 provinces and cities have the coverage rate of cape 2 below 90%.
The Ministry of Health said that so far, 204.8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been distributed out of a total of 227.8 million doses received; Most of the remaining vaccines are because they have just been received, and it is necessary to carry out procedures for quality control and vaccine release.
According to the Ministry of Health, Vietnam is currently in the transition period between the pandemic phase to sustainable risk management, towards a step-by-step normalization with the COVID-19 epidemic. The rate of serious illness and death has decreased much compared to the previous period, but the number of deaths recorded daily is still high, around 80 cases per day.
The prevalence of the disease is not uniform among provinces and cities; virus characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 continuously appear variations; While surveillance, care and treatment systems need to be improved to be able to respond to epidemic situations, it is still necessary to focus on active prevention measures.
Rapidly deploying COVID-19 vaccine to complete the 3rd injection for people aged 18 years old (except for those who are contraindicated and have not yet received the injection) in the first quarter of 2022; complete the 2nd injection for 12-17 year olds in March 2022; preparing injections for children aged 5-11 years; study the 4th injection and children under 5 years old…
Source: CafeF
Source: Vietnam Insider