Hanoi begins COVID-19 vaccination for children aged 5-11

A person gets vaccinated against COVID-19 (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – began vaccinating children in the age group of
five to below 12 against the on April 14.

According to the municipal Health Department, from 6pm on
April 12 to 6pm on April 13, the capital recorded 1,727 infections, of
whom 629 were community-infected, bringing the total to 1.52
million as from April 29, 2021 when the fourth wave of COVID-19 hit the city.

The first batch of vaccines administered to
is Moderna, sponsored by the Australian Government. The shipment arrived in Vietnam on April 8.

The other vaccine approved for use on children in the age group is Pfizer-BioNTech.

The recommended gap between doses is four weeks. For
children, both doses must be of the same vaccine.

“We have 11.8 million children from 5-12 years old
eligible for COVID-19 ,” said Phan Trọng Lân, Director of the
Ministry of Health’s General Department of Preventive Medicine, adding 3.6 million of these children have recovered from
COVID-19 and will be vaccinated three months later./.