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The vehicle carrying the COVID-19 vaccine was transferred to an immunization center of the VNVC Immunization Center System on the afternoon of February 24 – Photo: NHAT THINH
This morning, March 8, Vietnam began vaccinating COVID-19 widely, in its largest ever-expanding vaccination program, with around 100 million injections in 2021. The targets, as Health Ministry Minister Nguyen said Thanh Long, is to regain life. normal soon.
There will be another 31 million doses of vaccine from Moderna, USA The total of these 2 lots is 91 million doses, Vietnam continues to negotiate the purchase of vaccines so that all designated residents can get vaccinated.
Running frantically catch up
Since half a month, before the vaccine is ready to return to Vietnam, the preparation for the training courses for the vaccination system, review of the conservation system … has been carried out vigorously. Ms. Duong Thi Hong – Head of the National Bureau of Expanded Immunization, Deputy Director of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology – shared with the staff of the vaccination office regularly “training day, evening document reading of the Medical Organization . World”. This is a new vaccine, as of March 6, there are only 25 countries for vaccines in circulation or approved for import, so the most careful training is in safety.
“About 10% of people injected have reactions like restlessness, fever, fever over 38 degrees, another 10% have local reactions like swelling, heat, redness, pain at the injection site, this is the same rate. Other vaccines “- Ms. Hong saying.
However, vaccination officials were not without concerns. Serious post-vaccination complications have been reported in countries where the COVID-19 vaccine is widely available, including in young adults. According to Ms Hong, the survey of these cases shows that the cases with severe reactions are all chronic disease cases, and before injection, screening is necessary to postpone the injection or stop injecting with risk cases.
“This vaccine is used for people 18 years and older. We organize vaccination in hospitals, clinics, mobile injection sites … All sites where vaccination is available must be the same as the previous one. Trained to vaccinate COVID-19. people over 65 and with background illnesses, we will deploy vaccination in the hospital, “said Ms. Hong.
According to Mr. Nguyen Thanh Long – Minister of Health, after injecting 1 injection of the COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine, 76% of the vaccine is effective immune, after the second injection, this rate is 81%. With Moderna’s vaccine, the rate of achieving the immune effect is over 90%. However, there is currently no evidence for the immunological efficacy of having 2 injections with 2 different vaccines, and there is no evidence that COVID-19 will be required next year as it is a vaccine. injection protection time.
Back to life normal
Having such a large immunization program is the effort of many organizations, individuals, the health sector and silent people who have made a great contribution to buy vaccines in Vietnam. Although this is not easy because the whole world is “struggling” with every dose of vaccine. In particular, the Ministry of Health and the VNVC Vaccination System Center signed a tripartite contract with the manufacturer AstraZeneca starting in November 2020 and negotiated that the vaccine be reasonably priced and widely used for citizen vaccination.
With the above immunological effects, not 100% of injected people are immune to COVID-19. But according to Mr. Long, if he were vaccinated and still contracted the disease, the disease would be mild, not fatal, which means that the protective effect would still be at a certain level. However, along with the vaccine, 5K measures must still be applied for better protection.
Over the past year, the world has changed dramatically because COVID-19 and Vietnam are considered good against the epidemic, with the number of cases currently ranked 173 out of more than 200 countries and territories. Outbreaks, but we have experienced 5 major epidemics, the most recent and ongoing, which are the initial outbreaks in Hai Duong and Quang Ninh. If an early 5K combination vaccination was widely vaccinated, life soon returned to normal.
Online exchange:
When will people register for the COVID-19 vaccine?
This morning 8-3, for the first time, the Ministry of Health deployed the COVID-19 vaccine in a large area with a batch of 117,600 doses imported to Vietnam on February 24. In the short term, medical personnel, police forces and military will be injected into anti-epidemic posts …
The Health Ministry announced in March that it intends to have one more batch of vaccine of more than 1.3 million doses back to Vietnam. By April and May, the amount of vaccine will be abundant and people will be widely vaccinated, with 100 million injections this year to return to normal life soon.
According to the Ministry of Health, in addition to injecting under the expanded program, people have needs and conditions to be able to obtain COVID-19 vaccine services in accredited units.
When will people register to vaccinate? What vaccines are used? Contraindicated vaccine for what age group? Is the vaccine 100% effective against diseases? … To help you read more clearly, Youth organized online exchanges with the advice of guests from the National Office for Expanded Immunization, the National Expanded Vaccination Program and the VNVC Immunization Center System.
The program takes place today from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. (8-3) on Online youth (tuoitre.vn) with the VNVC Immunization Center System partner. Invite readers to ask questions ahead of time here.
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