The Vietnamese health ministry has asked provincial/municipal health department to provide the tentative number of vaccines needed for the rollout of second COVID-19 booster shots (fourth doses) before May 25, 2022.
The National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology on Tuesday received 7.2 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for children aged five to 11 years old.
The National Institute for Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE) has distributed a further 2.4 million doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for children aged five to under 12 years old to provincial and municipal centres for disease controls across the country.
More than 230,000 children aged five to under 12 years old in HCM City have got their first COVID-19 vaccine shot, according to a report by the city’s Department of Health.
Việt Nam hopes other countries and territories will simplify entry rules for Vietnamese travellers to boost economic recovery and people’s movement, said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Lê Thị Thu Hằng.
The vaccination of children aged between five and 11 years old have been carried out safely at many localities over the past few days and no incidents have been recorded so far.
The Vietnamese Government has agreed with the Ministry of Health on the receiving of COVID-19 vaccines donated by foreign governments and supplied by international organisations for children aged from 5 to under 12 years old in the country.
As Việt Nam is set to start COVID-19 vaccinations for children from 5 to 11 years old, health officials and health workers are calling on parents to make preparations for their children’s vaccination.
The capital of Hà Nội has reason to be confident in its decision to send young children (grades 1 to 6) back to in-person learning despite them being in the unvaccinated age group, a city official said.
The first batch of Moderna COVID-19 vaccines to inoculate children aged 5-11 is expected to arrive in Việt Nam on May 10, according to Deputy Minister of Health Đỗ Xuân Tuyên.
COVID-19 vaccines cause no negative impact on children’s genetics or future fertility, so children should be vaccinated to reduce their risk of severe disease and hospitalisations, according to experts.
Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines to Việt Nam, via the global vaccine sharing initiative COVAX Facility.