Nearly 8,500 6th grade students in Hanoi have been vaccinated against COVID-19

According to the Hanoi Department of Health, on April 17, the city has 15 districts, towns and cities to deploy injections vaccines Moderna for 6th graders. The total number of injections as of the end of this afternoon is 6,551 injections.

Previously, on April 16, three districts of Ha Dong, Phu Xuyen and Soc Son received 1,884 doses of Moderna vaccine for 6th grade students in the area. Thus, in two days 16 and 17/4, Hanoi has deployed 8,435 injections.

The vaccine used for children is Moderna vaccine (injected with a dose of 0.25ml/child). 28 days later, the child will receive the second injection.

Leaders of Hanoi Department of Health said that injection points have been arranged according to a one-way process from reception, screening, injection and post-injection monitoring; get ready, full anaphylaxis first aid box and first aid equipment, quick response team, ambulance…

Children and their parents and guardians are carefully advised on nutrition, care, and follow-up after vaccination against COVID-19. To date, there have been no reported cases of post-injection reactions.

According to the plan, Hanoi will vaccinate children from 5 to under 12 years old depending on the amount of vaccine provided by the Ministry of Health, striving that 95% of children eligible for vaccination will receive all vaccines.

The scope of implementation follows the principle of uniformly deploying the whole city according to the age-reducing route (from under 12 to 5 years old, equivalent to 6th graders being injected first, then injected in turn from 5th to 5th grade). grade 1 and finally to 5-year-olds).

It is expected that more than 1 million children will be vaccinated in this age group, including more than 157,000 children in kindergarten, 743,200 children in primary school and more than 102,100 children in lower secondary school (school year 2021. -2022). In addition, through statistics, there are more than 6,600 children between the ages of 5 and under 12 years old, who do not go to school but live in the city.