A worker in the Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone in HCM City gets a shot of vaccine (Photo: VNA)HCM City (VNA) – is set to conduct COVID-19
vaccination throughout the (Tet) holiday, which will last for
nine days starting this weekend, according to its Department of Health.
The city has yet to cover all residents with COVID-19 vaccines since
there is not any guidance on inoculation for children aged under 12, so it theoretically
hasn’t achieved herd immunity, Nguyen Thi Huynh Mai, Chief of the municipal
Health Department’s Office, told a press meeting on January 27.
Though new infections have fallen sharply and deaths have also stood at
a single-digit number on recent days and continued to decrease, HCM City is
still urging people to comply with the 5K principle and drastically pushing
ahead with , especially the administration of booster doses, so as
to enhance herd immunity.
Health authorities
will make a list of all people who have yet to be inoculated, those eligible
for receiving the second and third doses, as well as unvaccinated COVID-19
patients so as to prepare for the vaccination.
During Tet,
each district will have one fixed vaccination site and can also organise mobile
ones.
In terms of the Omicron cases, Nguyen Hong Tam,
Deputy Director of HCM City’s Centre for Disease Control, said the city has
recorded 92 infections of this variant, including 87 imported cases. The five
others in the community were all linked with one imported Omicron case, and the
transmission has initially been brought under control./.
Source: VietnamPlus
