Deputy Health Minister Do Xuan Tuyen said on the evening of April 9 that about one million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine for children had arrived in Vietnam.
Reply VnExpressThe deputy minister said the vaccine arrived at Noi Bai airport (Hanoi) on the night of April 8. This amount of vaccine is being tested for vaccination in the near future.
Information from the Australian Embassy shows that the exact number of doses of the vaccine is 921,600, which is part of the Australian government’s vaccine support package for Vietnam.
Previously, Deputy Minister Tuyen said that in April there were three batches of vaccines to Vietnam, a total ofThank you 7 million doses. Thus, Vietnam still has two rounds of receiving children’s vaccines, including more than 2 million doses provided on April 13 and more than 4 million doses expected to be delivered before April 18. The supported vaccine this time is Spikevax, also known as the Moderna vaccine, which is indicated for vaccination for children aged 6-11 years.
On April 5, the Government Office conveyed the direction of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, requesting the Ministry of Health to complete Vaccinate children in the 2nd quarterso that children can go to summer school at the beginning of the third quarter, and at the end of the fourth quarter, the new school year.
The Expanded Immunization Program said it will deploy vaccination as soon as April, when the vaccine is tested for quality and safety. The first round of vaccinations is expected to begin on April 15. According to statistics from the Central Hygiene and Epidemiology, the whole country has more than 11.8 million children in the age of vaccination, of which children from 11 years old will be vaccinated first, then gradually lower the age.
Associate Professor Duong Thi Hong, Head of the Office of Expanded Immunization, Deputy Director of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, at the vaccination training session on April 1, said the most reported adverse reactions in children After the basic course of injections including pain at the injection site, fatigue, headache, myalgia, chills, nausea/vomiting, armpit swelling/pain, fever, injection site erythema, local swelling injection site, joint pain.
Associate Professor Hong recommends that guardians and families keep children under observation for 30 minutes at the injection site and continue monitoring for 28 days after the injection. When returning home, in the first three days, parents and caregivers must closely monitor 24/24 to promptly record adverse reactions in children, to avoid vigorous exercise.
Immunization experts recommend that children should be vaccinated three months After recovering from Covid-19. Children with anaphylaxis to vaccines or vaccine components should not be vaccinated. Children with allergies to any allergens, cognitive and behavioral disorders such as crowd psychology, white coat syndrome… need to be cautious when injecting. Children with an acute illness, or a progressive chronic illness, with multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) should delay vaccination until they recover or the disease is stable.
A vial of Moderna’s vaccine is used in Topeka, USA. Image: AP
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