Bac Giang accelerates second Covid-19 booster shot
Leaders of the Department of Health, the districts and city directly inspected and supervised at the vaccination points then confirmed that everything was done in line with the procedure without any injection incident.
The health worker in Lang Giang district injects Covid-19 vaccine to children aged 5 to under 12. |
As of 4pm on June 27, the province administered 4.6 million Covid-19 vaccine doses. 100 percent of adult population got first shot; 99.9 percent got second and third shots; 22.3 percent got fourth shot.
So far, 44.6 percent of workers at the industrial parks have been injected with fourth Covid-19 vaccine dose while the figure of workers outside the industrial parks has reached 48.5 percent. 49 percent of the children aged 5 to under 12 were injected with one shot while 15.6 percent got second ones.
The Omicron sub-lineage has entered Vietnam, forcing localities to accelerate the vaccination to reinforce the disease prevention efficiency.
Vice Director of the provincial Department of Health Nguyen Thi Thu Huong said the vaccination will be implemented in the upcoming day so as to strive to cover over 35 percent of children aged 5 to under 12 with first shot; over 50 percent of workers at the industrial parks with fourth doses and complete second booster shot for other prioritized cases in line with the vaccine allocation scheme of the Ministry of Health by the end of second quarter in 2022.
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