Under-12 children in Quang Ninh receive COVID-19 vaccination
Vietnam kicked off a campaign to inoculate children from five to 11 years old against COVID-19 on April 14, as the campaign started with the vaccination of nearly 200 sixth-grade pupils in the northern province of Quang Ninh.
Vietnam kicked off a campaign to inoculate children from five to 11 years old against COVID-19 on April 14, as the campaign started with the vaccination of nearly 200 sixth-grade pupils in Tran Quoc Toan secondary school in the northern province of Quang Ninh.
The first batch of Moderna vaccines, sponsored by the Australian Government, arrived in Vietnam on April 8. The vaccines were transported to the National Institute for Control of Vaccine and Biologicals for quality checks before being moved to Quang Ninh.
The vaccines will be transported to other localities for administration to sixth-graders nationally.
The campaign is one of the activities aimed at raising public awareness of the importance of universal vaccination, particularly during the complicated development of the pandemic.
It also demonstrates the determination of the Party and State in controlling the pandemic, protecting citizens' health and safety, and fulfiling the dual goals of COVID-19 prevention and control with socio-economic development, according to the Ministry of Health.
The Ministry of Health has approved Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for children from 5 to under 12, who will receive two shots of the same kind, with the second shot injected four weeks after the first one. The dosage will be 2ml for Pfizer and 0.25ml for Moderna.
The Health Ministry’s Department of Preventive Medicine said that Vietnam has 11.8 million children aging from 5 to under 12, of whom about 8.2 million have yet to be infected with COVID-19.
Vietnamese children are expected to receive full two shots by the end of the second quarter of this year. About 3.6 million children who recovered from COVID-19 will receive COVID-19 vaccine shots three months after their recovery.
