Latest regulations related to vaccination against Covid-19 after getting sick

04/05/2022 08:30 GMT+7

Accordingly, subjects over 12 years old who have contracted Covid-19 will be vaccinated against Covid-19 after 3-6 months of recovery, for children from 5 to under 12 years old, at least 3 months.

Recently, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Truong Son, Deputy Minister of Health chaired an online conference on deploying Covid-19 vaccine for people with Covid-19.

According to Deputy Minister Son, so far, there is not enough evidence to fully understand the variants of SAR-CoV-2, but the application of prevention measures, especially vaccination, is very important. Vietnam has gradually expanded the groups of people over 18 years old, over 12 years old with a high vaccination rate and will soon be deployed to the group of over 5 years old.

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The Deputy Minister requested relevant units to continue to compile data on the situation of the Covid-19 epidemic and vaccination in the world and in Vietnam to propose policies on the use of Covid-19 vaccines during the period of time. next.

Although the data in Vietnam has not been fully collected, with more than 9.3 million cases recorded, this is a huge source of data for analysis and evaluation.

The Department of Medical Examination and Treatment and the Department of Preventive Medicine are responsible for synthesizing the situation of the Covid-19 epidemic with its mutations so far for analysis as a scientific basis for reporting to the Government and announcing information. trust for the community.

The vaccination against Covid-19 for people already infected with Covid-19 is done as follows:

– Unify the policy of vaccinating against Covid-19 for children from 5 years old to under 12 years old who have contracted Covid-19 after recovering from the disease for at least 3 months, injecting basic doses of the same vaccine for children.

– Subjects over 12 years old who have been infected should be vaccinated against Covid-19 after 3-6 months of recovery.

The Deputy Minister also assigned the Institutes of Hygiene and Epidemiology, the Pasteur Institute and the Research Institutes to collect data on vaccinated subjects, assess the protective effectiveness of the vaccine, the rate of infection, re-infection, and the number of serious infections in the colony. The table is assigned to manage to analyze and recommend the use of Covid-19 vaccine in the near future.

Previously, the Ministry of Health instructed people who have been infected with Covid-19 to be vaccinated immediately after recovering and completing medical isolation as prescribed instead of waiting 6 months as before.

N. Huyen