Students at the Hoa Binh Primary School in ’s District 1 on February 14. (Photo: VNA)HCM City (VNS/VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City plans to vaccinate 970,000
children aged 5-11 against .
Nguyen Hong
Tam, deputy director of the city’s (HCDC), said on February
14 however it would have been approved by parents individually and is not
obligatory.
HCDC has
provided training to health workers at all levels in safe practices,
vaccine storage, handling vaccination side effects, and others.
Tam said
when the Ministry of Health issued guidelines for the vaccination, the city’s
Department of Health would draft plans for it.
Health
agencies had worked with district authorities to persuade parents to vaccinate
their children, he added.
Nguyen Thi
Huynh Mai, the health department’s chief of office, called on parents of
children suffering from malnutrition or obesity or having underlying health
issues to definitely get them vaccinated to boost their immune system.
Back to
school
Three COVID
cases were detected in schools on February 14, the day they resumed classes for
all grades.
Trinh Duy Trong
of the Department of Education and Training said the schools and local health
agencies handled the new infections based on the protocol issued by the health
ministry.
All students
who had been in close contact with the patients tested negative.
Trong warned
there would be more COVID cases this week, and schools would face many
obstacles in the pandemic prevention and control in the upcoming weeks.
The
department has instructed schools to scrupulously comply with preventive
measures, and test teachers, staff and students who left the city during the Tet
holidays.
According to
the department, around 66.32 percent of pre-school, 95.99 percent of primary
school, and 94.96 percent of sixth-grade students attended classes on February
14./.
Source: VietnamPlus
