PM orders faster COVID-19 vaccination amid rising case number
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has urged the Ministry of Health and relevant ministries and agencies as well as the People’s Committees of cities and provinces nationwide to strictly implement his dispatch issued on July 25 regarding the speeding up of COVID-19 vaccination, the Government Office said in a statement.
Vaccination is still an effective measure against BA.4 and BA.5 (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hasurged the Ministry of Health and relevant ministries and agencies as well asthe People’s Committees of cities and provinces nationwide to strictlyimplement his dispatch issued on July 25 regarding the speedingup of COVID-19 vaccination, the Government Office said in a statement.
The request was made amid the rising number of COVID-19infections, with the detection of some new sub-variant of Omicron. Meanwhile,many localities have yet to complete the injection of the vaccines they hadreceived.
According to the statement, the Acting Minister of HealthDao Hong Lan was asked to drastically direct the healthcare system from thecentral to the local levels to ensure COVID-19 vaccination progress and study the demands of particular locality until the end of the third quarter foradequate vaccine allocation.
The Ministry of Health was requested to coordinate with theMinistry of Information and Communications as well as relevant agencies toencourage people to get COVID-19 vaccine shots as scheduled.
Leaders of the People’s Committees of cities and provinceswere assigned to direct the vaccination activities and bear the responsibilitybefore the Party, State and the law on the results.
COVID-19 vaccination (Photo: VNA)
According to the Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute, Omicron'snew sub-variants BA.4 and BA.5 have increased in the southernlocalities together with sub-variants BA.2. Meanwhile, sub-variant BA.2.12.1has also been detected in the localities, where the outbreak of the Delta variant iscausing a rise in the case number.
The National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology reportedthat 21.5 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have yet to be administered,mostly Pfizer and Moderna. At the same time, 16 out of the 63 provinces and cities nationwide have yet tosubmit their registration of vaccine demand for the last six months of the yearas requested by the Ministry of Health.
Meanwhile, the progress of the injection of the first andsecond booster doses as well as the vaccination of children between 5-11years old have lagged behind scheduled.
Representatives of the World Health Organisation and the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in Vietnamunderlined that COVID-19 is still a global public health emergency, stressingthat vaccination is still an effective measure against BA.4 and BA.5, alongwith influenza A and common flu./.
A total 1,460 COVID-19 cases were logged on July 26, the highest over the past about 70 days, raising the national caseload to 10,770,304, according to the Ministry of Health.
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Despite the ongoing global circulation and unpredictable developments of SARS-CoV-2, the World Health Organisation (WHO) hasn’t issued new warnings about COVID-19, said the Ministry of Health.
Vaccination is still an effective measure against BA.4 and BA.5 (Photo: VNA) 
COVID-19 vaccination (Photo: VNA) 
