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Vietnam plans to inoculate children aged 5-11 against COVID-19

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked the Ministry of Health (MoH) to promptly build a plan for vaccinating children aged 5-11 against COVID-19, which will be submitted to the Politburo for consideration and decision, according to an annoucement released on December 8 by the Government’s Office.
Vietnam plans to inoculate children aged 5-11 against COVID-19 ảnh 1Illustrative photo. (Source: Ministry of Health)
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked the Ministry of Health (MoH) to promptly build a plan for vaccinatingchildren aged 5-11 against COVID-19, which will be submitted to the Politburo for consideration and decision, according to an announcement released on December 8 by the Government’s Office.
The announcement was issued following a meeting between the PM and ministries and agencies in accelerating the development and transfer of production technology of COVID-19 vaccines and drugs last weekend.

PM Chinh tasked the MoH with urgently finalising amaster plan on containing COVID-19 which provides details on the number ofdoses, types of vaccines, age groups, booster shots and others, and proposes aroadmap for mobilising social resources for COVID-19 vaccination.

The MoH should thoroughly devise a vaccine procurement planfor next year, it said, adding that contracts for securing vaccines for childrenmust be signed this month.

The PM also urged the ministry to further speed up vaccine rollout nationwide as the country is set to complete the inoculation of adults (aged 18 and above) with two jabs by December 15.

According to the announcement, Vietnam aims to provide the adultswith booster shots before June 2022, with priority to givento senior citizens aged 50 and older and frontline workers.

As of December 8, Vietnam have inoculated over129.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, with about 55.5 million people, ormore than half of the country’s population of roughly 100 million, receivingtwo doses.

The country started to vaccinate children aged 12-17 inlate October./.
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