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The Ministry of Health requested units to review the vaccination rate in the area and high-risk groups that need to be vaccinated against Covid-19, and continue to deploy vaccination to prevent the epidemic.
The Ministry of Health has just sent a document to the health departments of provinces and centrally run cities; the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, and the Pasteur Institute to guide the injection of Covid-19 vaccine.
Accordingly, from October 2023, the Ministry of Health has decided to adjust the classification of Covid-19 from group A infectious disease to group B infectious disease.
Currently, Covid-19 is being controlled and managed sustainably, in which vaccination is one of the tasks and solutions in the 2023-2025 period.
The Ministry of Health assesses that the current Covid-19 epidemic situation in the world is unpredictable and difficult to predict, with new sub-variants continuing to be recorded.
In November 2023, the World Health Organization in Vietnam issued updated recommendations on priority groups for Covid-19 vaccination in the coming time.
To enhance immunity against Covid-19 vaccine, especially in high-risk groups, based on the recommendations of the World Health Organization's strategic advisory group on immunization and the Ministry of Health's Vaccine Advisory Council, the Ministry of Health continues to guide the injection of Covid-19 vaccine.
Subjects eligible for Covid-19 vaccination include: medical staff; people over 50 years old, people with underlying medical conditions; people over 18 years old who have not received any vaccinations; pregnant women.
Regarding the vaccination dose, the Ministry of Health has specific instructions: those who have not been vaccinated will be vaccinated immediately with 1 dose. Those who have been vaccinated will be vaccinated with 1 more dose at least 6 months after the previous dose with a vaccine licensed for use by the Ministry of Health.
For pregnant women, inject 1 dose during each pregnancy and inject at any stage of pregnancy, preferably in the middle stage of pregnancy.
The Ministry of Health requested units to review the vaccination rate in the area and the subjects that need to be vaccinated according to the instructions to study and propose the need for Covid-19 vaccine in the coming time and send it to the Central Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology for timely supply and organize vaccination according to the local plan.
To date, our country has administered more than 266.5 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine.
Vietnam is one of the countries with the highest Covid-19 vaccine coverage rate in the world, with the basic vaccination rate for people aged 12 and over reaching nearly 100%, and the fourth vaccination rate for people aged 18 and over at high risk reaching 89.6%.
In early May, a new Covid-19 variant called KP.2 spread rapidly in the US, UK and Canada, and is believed to be more immune evasive than any previous variant.
In Vietnam, the most recent variant recorded and recommended for monitoring by the health sector is JN.1. This is a variant of concern according to the classification of the World Health Organization (WHO).
The JN.1 variant is considered to have the potential to reduce vaccine effectiveness and evade immunity, but according to WHO, there is currently no evidence that this variant is more virulent or causes more severe illness than previous variants, and the public health risk is still assessed as low at the global level.
WHO continues to recommend the implementation of booster and additional doses of Covid-19 vaccine in high-risk groups such as health workers, children, the elderly and people with underlying medical conditions.
