A health worker prepares to administer vaccine to labourers at an industrial park in Bac Giang province. (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime
Minister Vu Duc Dam on March 17 signed a resolution issuing the COVID-19
prevention and control programme for 2022 – 2023.
The programme’s overall goal is to
ensure effective control of the pandemic, contain the spread in the
community, practice maximum protection of people’s health and lives, minimise severe
COVID-19 cases and deaths, and boost socio-economic recovery and development.
Among the detailed targets, the programme aims that by the end of the first quarter of 2022, Vietnam will have finished
administering the second vaccine doses to people aged 12 and under 18, and the
third doses to those aged 18 and above, except for the ones with a contraindication
to vaccination. It looks to ensure sufficient vaccine supply and complete the
inoculation of children aged 5 and under 12 by September 2022.
Besides, administrations at all levels
have to devise anti-COVID-19 plans, and all people comply with suitable
pandemic prevention and control measures. The country will also strive to
reduce the mortality rate per 1 million people to less than the average in
Asia.
Under the programme, Vietnam will
work to improve the capacity of the healthcare system, especially preventive
medicine and grassroots health care; increase investment in medical supplies
and infrastructure; give appropriate treatment policies to those working in
preventive medicine and grassroots health care; and enhance the emergency aid
and intensive care quality at all-level medical establishments.
Apart from implementing COVID-19
vaccination as fast as possible, it will quickly consider the inoculation of the fourth vaccine doses
for adults, the third doses for people aged 5 and under 18, and for
children aged 3 – 5.
The best possible conditions will be created
to speed up vaccine manufacturing and production technology transfer, apply the
national population database to update information about the vaccinated people,
monitor the COVID-19 vaccine coverage, and distribute in a reasonable
and effective manner.
In addition, Vietnam will keep a
close watch on the pandemic situation in the country and the world while making
timely amendments and supplements, and updating specialised guidelines to
ensure safe and flexible adaptation to, effective control of the pandemic, and
socio-economic recovery and development, according to the programme./.
Source: VietnamPlus
