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Ho Chi Minh City plans to vaccinate 970,000 children aged 5-11 against COVID-19.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has asked the Ministry of Health (MoH) to urgently complete and issue guidelines on COVID-19 treatment protocols for people under 18 years old, especially children under 12.

Around 60.6 percent of parents with children aged 5-11 years said they agree to let their children get COVID-19 vaccine shots, according to a survey by the health ministry.

The Hy Vong (Hope) Boarding School for children orphaned due to the COVID-19 pandemic, established by FPT Corporation in the central city of Da Nang, has recently welcomed its first students.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam had a working session with leaders of the Ministry of Health and the People’s Committee of Hanoi to discuss responses in the situation when COVID-19 infections are detected in schools in the context of Hanoi beginning to re-open schools.

Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has called on public health authorities to speed up COVID-19 vaccination for children aged 5-11 as the virus continues to spread among kids and their vaccination rate remains very low.

Face-to-face learning will be resumed for pupils from the first to sixth grades in 18 suburban districts and towns of Hanoi from February 10 after a long time of online learning due to COVID-19.

The Government has decided to buy 21.9 million doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5-12.

Thailand's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on February 4 that it has approved the use of China's Sinovac and Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines for those aged six and above, given that the nation is accelerating its vaccine roll-out.

The Embassy of Vietnam in Italy on January 23 hosted a virtual get-together on the threshold of Tet (Lunar New Year) festival, with the participation of about 150 overseas Vietnamese, representatives of associations and friends in Italy and Cyprus.

The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCMCYU) in Ho Chi Minh City and businesses have handed gifts to youth unionists, adolescents and children who are living in disadvantageous circumstances and adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, on the occasion of the approaching Lunar New Year (Tet).

Thailand’s Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) has approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5-11.

No serious suspected adverse effects associated with COVID-19 vaccines have been reported among children aged between 5-11 years since the vaccination roll-out began at the end of last year, said the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) of Singapore.

The National Fund for Vietnamese Children (NFVA) offered support to nearly 15,500 children hit by COVID-19 last year at a total cost of over 20.8 billion VND (904,000 USD), 2,930 of them were orphans and 520 had their mothers infected with the virus, said NFVA Director Hoang Van Tien.

Vietnam is exercising caution in consideration of COVID-19 vaccinations for children aged 5-11 years, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long told local media.

The 2022 “Mua xuan cho em” (Spring for Children) programme raised more than 104 billion VND (4.58 million USD) to support disadvantaged and pandemic-hit children.

The French cultural centre in Hanoi (L'Espace) has launched a writing contest themed “Con yeu Tet” [I love Tet] on the occasion of the debut of a Vietnamese-French bilingual book of the same name.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended a ceremony in Hanoi on January 9 to launch a campaign on creating children’s literature works, and present the first young author award.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has assigned the Ministry of Health to coordinate with the Ministry of Education and Training in organising a survey on COVID-19 vaccinations for children aged from five.

Director General of the Malaysian Health Ministry Noor Hisham Abdullah said on January 6 that the Drug Control Authority (DCA) of the country has given conditional approval for Pfizer-BioNTech’s Comirnaty jab for children aged between 5 and 11 years old.