The Ministry of Health urges localities to accelerate vaccinations against COVID-19 - Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)According to the MoH, from October to December this year, Vietnam is likely toreceive a larger number of COVID-19 vaccines than before.
To ensure the use of vaccines on schedule and quickly increasevaccination coverage forVietnamese people, the MoH proposed Secretaries of provincial/municipal PartyCommittees and Chairpersons of provincial/municipal People’s Committees acrossthe county to direct relevant units to develop plans and prepare facilities,equipment and human resources to deploy large-scale vaccination rollouts fromnow until the end of 2021.
The ministry also urged localities to accelerate the inoculations for those aged18 and above, with priority giving to people aged 50 and older, and increasethe vaccination coverage ofthe first shot, give second injections to those who have received the firstshots in line with the prescribed time.
Preparation should be made to deploy vaccinations for other groups inaccordance with instructions of the ministry, it added.
The MoH asked localities mobilise all forces to join the vaccination task,including public and private healthcare establishments and medical examinationand treatment units of sectors, and conduct vaccinations at fixed medicalfacilities and mobile vaccination sites.
These facilities should thoroughly apply information technology in vaccination campaigns,and must urgently update full information related vaccinated people, and newly-administeredpeople to the national COVID-19 vaccinationsystem, it said.
The MoH suggested that leaders of localities urgently direct the implementationof the work, consider this as a key task in the current situation, and takeresponsibility before the Government and the Prime Minister if the organisationof vaccine reception and vaccination remains slow and vaccine waste occurs.
As of September 27, over 40.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines were administeredto people nationwide, with 23 million people getting the first shots and 8.6million others fully receiving two shots. The proportion of people aged 18years and above getting at least one dose of vaccineư against COVID-19 reached43.9 percent./.
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