Ministry urges localities to accelerate vaccinations against COVID-19

The Ministry of Health urges localities to accelerate vaccinations against COVID-19 – Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – The (MoH)
has sent a document to Secretaries of provincial/municipal Party Committees and
Chairpersons of provincial/municipal People’s Committees, asking for faster vaccinations
against COVID-19.

According to the MoH, from October to December this year, Vietnam is likely to
receive a larger number of COVID-19 vaccines than before.

To ensure the use of vaccines on schedule and quickly increase
vaccination coverage for
Vietnamese people, the MoH proposed Secretaries of provincial/municipal Party
Committees and Chairpersons of provincial/municipal People’s Committees across
the county to direct relevant units to develop plans and prepare facilities,
equipment and human resources to deploy large-scale vaccination rollouts from
now until the end of 2021.

The ministry also urged localities to accelerate the inoculations for those aged
18 and above, with priority giving to people aged 50 and older, and increase
the vaccination coverage of
the first shot, give second injections to those who have received the first
shots in line with the prescribed time.

Preparation should be made to deploy vaccinations for other groups in
accordance with instructions of the ministry, it added.  

The MoH asked localities mobilise all forces to join the vaccination task,
including public and private healthcare establishments and medical examination
and treatment units of sectors, and conduct vaccinations at fixed medical
facilities and mobile vaccination sites.

These facilities should thoroughly apply information technology in vaccination campaigns,
and must urgently update full information related vaccinated people, and newly-administered
people to the national COVID-19 vaccination
system, it said.

The MoH suggested that leaders of localities urgently direct the implementation
of the work, consider this as a key task in the current situation, and take
responsibility before the Government and the Prime Minister if the organisation
of vaccine reception and vaccination remains slow and vaccine waste occurs.

As of September 27, over 40.2 million doses of were administered
to people nationwide, with 23 million people getting the first shots and 8.6
million others fully receiving two shots. The proportion of people aged 18
years and above getting at least one dose of vaccineư against reached
43.9 percent./.