New guidelines on vaccination for people who have been infected with Covid-19

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

According to Deputy Minister Son, up to now, there is not enough evidence to fully understand the variants of SARS-CoV-2, but the application of prevention measures, especially vaccination, is very important.

Vietnam is gradually expanding the groups of people vaccinated over 18 years old, over 12 years old with a high vaccination rate.

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The Deputy Minister requested the 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 in the near future. .

Although the data in Vietnam has not been fully collected, with the number of cases recorded more than 9.3 million cases, 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:

– Agree on the policy of vaccination 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 type. 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 severe cases in the area. assigned to manage to analyze and propose the use of Covid-19 vaccine in the near future.

National Children’s Hospitals, Children’s Hospitals of provinces and cities and Provincial and Municipal General Hospitals analyze the situation of children infected with Covid-19 who come to the hospital for examination, hospitalization, severe illness, death, and MIS-C syndrome on areas and send them to the Department of Health to summarize and report to the Ministry of Health.

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.

According to Dan Tri