People’s support decisive to vaccination coverage expansion: official

A boy get vaccinated against in Hanoi. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – People’s
consensus and support is the prerequisite for quickly expanding the vaccination
coverage to effectively control the COVID-19 pandemic, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Lien Huong told the Government’s press briefing on September 6.

Recently, the
Prime Minister has issued many directions demanding vaccination acceleration. He stressed at an August 6 meeting of the National Steering Committee for
COVID-19 Prevention and Control that getting vaccinated is the responsibility,
obligation, and right of all people.

Huong said by the end of September 5,
Vietnam had administered more than 257 million COVID-19 . It is
now one of the countries with the largest as almost 100%
of people aged 12 and above have received the first or second doses, and 56% of
the population the third doses – doubling the global average.

About 85.4% of
children aged 5 – 11 have been injected with the first doses, meeting the
target set by the PM, statistics show.

Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Lien Huong speaks at the Government’s press briefing on September 6. (Photo: VNA)

The official noted thanks
to enhanced vaccination and anti-COVID-19 efforts, the pandemic has been
basically brought under control and the country has returned to the normal
status.

However, the number
of new infections has been rebounding nationwide with the appearance of some
new sub-variants of that are more contagious and can evade the immune
system.

Given this, people
are recommended to have their children inoculated fully and on schedule. In
particular, the children with comorbidities and high risk are the priority
group, the Deputy Minister emphasised./.