The Department of Health of Ho Chi Minh City has just issued a plan to vaccinate against COVID-19 throughout the holidays for city people aged 18 and over with 59 vaccination points in 22 districts and Thu Duc city˳
The health sector of Ho Chi Minh City will deploy 59 vaccination points against COVID-19 throughout the holidays in 22 districts and Thu Duc city for people aged 18 and over – Photo: SPRING MAI
This is the latest move from the health sector in Ho Chi Minh City in the context of the pandemicThe situation of the COVID-19 epidemic is still complicated with the appearance of new sub-variants of the Omicron variant in Ho Chi Minh City such as XBB˳1˳5, XBB˳1˳9˳1, XBB˳1˳16 and XBB˳1˳16˳ first˳
Along with that, herd immunity began to decrease, leading to a rapid increase in the number of new cases in recent days˳
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health said that the number of COVID-19 cases requiring hospitalization has also begun to increase again, of which most are people in risk groups and those who have not received enough COVID-19 vaccines as prescribed˳ of the Ministry of Health˳
The situation of COVID-19 epidemic in Ho Chi Minh City in the past few days – Photo: provided by HCDC
According to the report of the Center for Disease Control of Ho Chi Minh City (HCDC), from 4 pm on April 23 to 4 pm on April 24, the city recorded 81 new cases of COVID-19, with 77 hospitalizations˳ During the day, there were 19 cases discharged from the hospital˳ Currently, hospitals are treating 233 cases, 62 cases needing respiratory support˳
Mr˳ Tang Chi Thuong – Director of the Department of Health of Ho Chi Minh City, said that following and effectively implementing the “Campaign to protect people in risk groups” just issued by the City People’s Committee would be decisive˳
In particular, being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as recommended by the Ministry of Health is always the best measure to help protect yourself, your family and the community against the COVID-19 epidemic˳
In order to help people have safe holidays in the upcoming holidays including the death anniversary of Hung Kings (March 10 of the lunar calendar), Southern Liberation Day (April 30) and International Labor Day (May 5)˳ ), the city’s health sector deployed 59 points of vaccination against COVID-19 during the holidays in 22 districts and Thu Duc city for people aged 18 and over˳
Specifically, the list of 59 places to vaccinate against COVID-19 during the holidays from April 29 to May 3˳
Free injection, focus on risk groups
Currently, vaccination against COVID-19 for people in Vietnam is still applied free of charge with the state budget and the COVID-19 vaccine fund until the end of the epidemic is announced˳
The injection organizers absolutely do not collect or accept any related costs, even from voluntary sources˳
In particular, priority should be given to the protection of at-risk groups (elderly people, many underlying diseases, etc˳)˳
When going to inject, people bring their identification papers, previous vaccination papers˳
The schedule of vaccination against COVID-19 in adults is 4 injections, in which the 2nd dose is separated from the 1st dose as recommended by the manufacturer (depending on the type of vaccine)˳
1st booster (dose 3) at least 3 months after the last dose of the basic dose; 2nd booster (dose 4), at least 4 months after the 1st booster (dose 3)˳
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Source link: https://cocc˳edu˳vn/59-diem-tiem-vac-xin-covid-19-xuyen-le-o-tp-hcm-20230425062652452˳htm
