There is no shortage of COVID-19 vaccine, why is the 3rd injection still slow?

“The Vaccination Campaign COVID-19 vaccine So far it can be said to be basically successful. Recently, however, the vaccination rate has been slow. The rate of 1st and 2nd injection for people over 18 years old reaches 100%, but the 3rd injection for people over 18 years old is very slow. We constantly talk to the locality and know that there is no shortage of vaccines, so where are the difficulties and problems?”, Mr. Long asked the above question at an online conference to thoroughly understand the ‘cleaning’ of COVID-19 vaccination data, on the morning of April 26.

Besides, after nearly half a month of vaccination, COVID-19 for children 5-11 years old, but the injection rate for this age group is still very slow. “This is what we are thinking about,” Mr. Long said.

The head of the health sector continued to suggest that localities must speed up the rate of vaccination against COVID-19 with the 3rd dose, given to children aged 12-17 under the direction of the Prime Minister. Provinces and cities also need to speed up the vaccination work for children aged 5-11 in the coming time.

The Ministry of Health has repeatedly sent written requests to localities to continue reviewing and making a list of subjects aged 12 and over who have not been vaccinated, or have not been vaccinated with enough basic doses to urgently inject full doses of the vaccine. ensure high vaccine coverage.

According to the Ministry of Health, localities need to strengthen, drastic and “speedy” more in deploying the 3rd dose vaccination for people aged 18 and over, mobilizing people to participate in injecting them timely and fully to achieve the best preventive effect.

Statistics on the COVID-19 Immunization Portal until April 25 show that the whole country injected more than 212.6 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine coverage rate for people 18 years of age and older is nearly 100%, dose 2 is 100%. The percentage of people who inject the 3rd dose is more than 55%. Meanwhile, for children 12-17 years old, the rate of 1st dose is 100% and 2nd dose is 96.3%.

Currently, 48 localities have been implementing COVID-19 vaccination for children 5-11 years old with a total of 667,778 doses (1st dose). Vaccination work for children of this age is still being carried out safely.