Who should get 4 shots of COVID-19 vaccine?

Those eligible to receive the 4th dose are people aged 50 years or older, people aged 18 years with moderate to severe immunodeficiency, and people aged 18 years and older in the high-risk group for exposure. COVID-19 (medical staff, frontline staff, industrial park workers). In addition, if a person who has received the 3rd dose of vaccine has COVID-19, 3 months after recovering from the disease, the 4th injection will be given.

Selected vaccines include mRNA vaccine (Pfizer or Moderna) and AstraZeneca vaccine or vaccines of the same type with dose 3.

The Ministry of Health assigned the Central Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology to review and update information on the 4th dose and develop a plan to inject the 4th dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

As of the afternoon of April 29, the whole country had injected 214,532,764 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. In which, the number of injections for people aged 18 years and older is 195,799,620 doses (1st dose: 71,456,157 doses; 2nd dose: 68,634,352 doses; 3rd dose: 1,505,910 doses; Additional dose: 15,303,828 doses). dose and booster dose is 38,899,373 doses).

Number of injections for children aged 12-17 years is 17,367,037 doses (1st dose: 8,903,471 doses; Nose 2: 8,463,566 doses).

Number of doses for children from 5-11 years old is 1,366,107 doses (1st dose).

The Ministry of Health has determined that the COVID-19 vaccine is a strategic weapon, the most important “shield” in epidemic prevention and control, and a foundation for safe and effective adaptation. Therefore, localities must speed up the rate of vaccination against COVID-19 vaccine with the 3rd dose, given to the 12-17 age group, and at the same time review and research the 4th injection for some subjects.

At the Government’s regular press conference in April 2022, Deputy Minister of Health Do Xuan Tuyen said that Vietnam is one of the six countries ranked in the top of the vaccine coverage rate. The Ministry of Health is assigning the Vaccine Council to meet to prepare instructions for the 4th dose of vaccination for subjects aged 18 years and older, and to speed up the vaccination schedule for children aged 5-11.