Covid-19 vaccine will return to Vietnam in February, who is given priority to inject first?

The Ministry of Health has just announced that it has approved the "conditional" import of the Covid-19 vaccine co-produced by AstraZeneca / Oxford University.

Accordingly, on February 1, all administrative procedures for importing vaccines will be completed. The number of first batches will be larger than previously expected (previously expected to be 50,400 doses).

Deputy Minister Nguyen Truong Son said there was a plan to deploy Covid-19 vaccination.

"Accordingly, high-risk subjects: close contacts with contagious diseases will be given priority first, and the disadvantaged people in society will be given priority to vaccinate first...", Deputy Minister Nguyen Truong Son said.

It is known that high-risk groups such as doctors, nurses, and border guards on the front lines... will be given the first priority. The source of payment for this group will be the state budget. In addition, other subjects "can be socialized", that is, they can also be vaccinated if they require it, but priority will be given to those at risk, the vulnerable people first." "At the same time, The units will base on the needs of the people to import and produce vaccines at the same time to meet the needs of society," Deputy Minister Nguyen Truong Son said.

According to the information that the reporter has, the price of the vaccine that the company sells to Vietnam will be less than 10 USD / 2 injections, according to the non-profit principle. It is expected that this vaccine will be imported to Vietnam in February 2021.

In addition, the Ministry of Health also actively and actively negotiates with companies with vaccines that have been approved by many countries such as Pfizer, Moderna and some other manufacturers to get more vaccines for Vietnam.

As for the "made in Vietnam" vaccine, there are currently four companies working on the production of a Covid-19 vaccine, two of which are at the stage of human trials. Right after the Lunar New Year, Nanocovax vaccine of Nanogen Company will test phase 2 on 560 volunteers. If deployed quickly and approved urgently, this vaccine could be available in mid-2021. At that time, the population to be vaccinated will be wider.

Notably, the Covivac vaccine - a cooperation product between the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, the Institute of Vaccines and Medical Biologicals (IVAC), Hanoi Medical University and international organizations - was developed on a new variant of the vaccine. SARS-CoV-2 .

Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son said that this outbreak has a very high level of infection, after only one day there were 82 new cases and then continued to detect more cases of infection in the community.

Analyzing the cause of the SARS-CoV-2 virus entering Vietnam, Deputy Minister Nguyen Truong Son said that the situation of illegal entry from other countries has been raised to the highest level of vigilance as directed. government, but we cannot completely control it.

Secondly, the protective clothing of staff at ports and border gates has not been properly implemented, which is a factor causing the risk of infection from passengers carrying the virus from rescue flights to Vietnam.

Third, the safety conditions in the isolation areas and concentrated facilities are well managed, but it is also possible that someone is negligent in the process, in the process of contacting the quarantined person has not been detected to have the disease. community spread. Therefore, we must be very careful, not negligent.

According to Deputy Minister Nguyen Truong Son, it is necessary to trace F0. But experience from Da Nang shows that even if F0 has not been detected, it can still be traced. Therefore, the first priority at this point is to trace contact cases involving the patients. In Quang Ninh, not only tested for F1, F2, F3 but also tested up to F4, ie expanding the suspected community to do testing.

"We have experience in recent outbreaks. The Ministry of Health has set up sub-committees, including the logistics sub-committee, to ensure that from now until Tet all vehicles and equipment are ready and prepared for the pandemic. The situation is that 10,000 people are infected in the country. We are determined to stop the epidemic within 10 days from January 28. By the 25th of the Lunar New Year, we can make efforts to control and control these two outbreaks," said Deputy Minister Nguyen Truong. Son emphasized.

Earlier on the evening of January 31, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam directly inspected the disease prevention work in Ho Chi Minh City. Chi Linh (Hai Duong), Dong Trieu Town (Quang Ninh).

In Chi Linh City (Hai Duong), the Deputy Prime Minister inspected the disease control point on Highway 37 through Chi Linh, the testing facility at the Preventive Medicine Center of Hai Duong province and the Covid-19 patient treatment unit. -19 at Hai Duong Medical University Hospital.

According to provincial leaders, after 4 days of drastic implementation, the epidemic situation has been basically controlled. Across the province, there are 45 isolation points, the blockade is mainly under the scope of 1 commune (from a few households to the village level), about 6-7 communes are completely isolated, and TP. Chi Linh.

The daily sampling progress of Hai Duong province gradually increased from about 5,000 samples to now reaching about 7,000 samples. It is expected that after installing more testing machines, Hai Duong's on-site testing capacity can reach 10,000 samples/day, meeting the current sampling rate.

The Hai Duong CDC leader said that with the current rate of sampling, tracing and zoning, after 10 days, about 80% can be controlled.

Commenting here, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said that thanks to the decisive and decisive action from the beginning of Hai Duong, the consensus of the people and the reinforcement of forces from the Central Government, today can be achieved. confirmed that the epidemic center here is basically well controlled.

However, the new variant of the virus spread very quickly, people exchanged and traveled a lot, not only in Hai Duong province but everywhere, so the Deputy Prime Minister asked Hai Duong province to continue to implement drastic measures. The method of tracing, zoning, and isolating... must not be relaxed.

"We have committed together in 10 days to basically control and stamp out the outbreak in Chi Linh, today we have 6 more days, so everyone must continue that spirit," the Deputy Prime Minister emphasized. .

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