Over 1 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines administered to children aged 5-12

Updated: 09:20, 29/04/2022

More than 1 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines had been administered to children from 5 to under 12 years old in provinces and cities nationwide as of April 27 afternoon, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).

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•2,738 children aged 5 to under 12 vaccinated against Covid-19 in Bac Giang

Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long requested localities to accelerate the vaccination coverage as as it remains slow at present.

A student gets a Covid-19 vaccine shot in Binh Thuan province.

Statistics from the MoH’s Department of Preventive Medicine showed that there are more than 11.8 million children aged from 5 to under 11 in Vietnam. Of these, 3.6 million are subject to a three-month delay of vaccination after contracting Covid-19 and they will get the first shot in July or August.

Covid-19 vaccination for children is one of the important tasks of the health sector in 2022.

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