HCM City accelerates for children. (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh
City have requested authorities of districts and Thu Duc city to speed up COVID-19
vaccination for children aged five to under 18, in preparation
for the new academic year 2023.
Children can get their jabs at schools and
other community s.
The municipal People’s Committee asked the Steering Committees
for COVID-19 Prevention and Control of districts and Thu Duc city to be
responsible for deploying and informing parents of vaccination sites.
The Health Department requested the Department of
Education and Training to strengthen information updating, and ordered three pediatric hospitals to
always have injection teams ready in order to serve inoculation
sites in all
districts, and Thu Duc city.
is seeing a slightly rising caseload due to the new
contagious sub-variants Omicron BA.4 and BA.5, although the number of serious cases remains stable.
On July 29, the city recorded 141 new cases, while
a few weeks ago it was only less than 50 each day.
Statistics from the municipal Department of Health show that the
rate of booster vaccine shots against for children
from 12 to under 18 in the city has reached only 19.86%. Meanwhile, the rate of
1st and 2nd shot for children from 5 to under 12 has stood at only 46.9% and
24.3% respectively./.
Source: VietnamPlus
