Illustrative photo. (Source: Ministry of Health)Hanoi (VNA) – has asked the Ministry of Health (MoH) to promptly build a plan for vaccinating
against COVID-19, which will be submitted to the Politburo for consideration and decision, according to an announcement released on December 8 by the Government’s Office.
PM Chinh tasked the MoH with urgently finalising a
master plan on containing which provides details on the number of
doses, types of vaccines, age groups, booster shots and others, and proposes a
roadmap for mobilising social resources for COVID-19 .
The MoH should thoroughly devise a vaccine procurement plan
for next year, it said, adding that contracts for securing vaccines for children
must be signed this month.
The PM also urged the ministry to further speed up vaccine rollout nationwide as the country is set to complete the inoculation of adults (aged 18 and above) with two jabs by December 15.
According to the announcement, Vietnam aims to provide the adults
with booster shots before June 2022, with priority to given
to senior citizens aged 50 and older and frontline workers.
As of December 8, Vietnam have inoculated over
129.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, with about 55.5 million people, or
more than half of the country’s population of roughly 100 million, receiving
two doses.
The country started to vaccinate children aged 12-17 in
late October./.
Source: VietnamPlus
