HCM City to conduct COVID-19 vaccination throughout Tet
Ho Chi Minh City is set to conduct COVID-19 vaccination throughout the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday, which will last for nine days starting this weekend, according to its Department of Health.
A worker in the Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone in HCM City gets a shot of COVID-19 vaccine (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City is set to conduct COVID-19vaccination throughout the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday, which will last fornine days starting this weekend, according to its Department of Health.
The city has yet to cover all residents with COVID-19 vaccines sincethere is not any guidance on inoculation for children aged under 12, so it theoreticallyhasn’t achieved herd immunity, Nguyen Thi Huynh Mai, Chief of the municipalHealth Department’s Office, told a press meeting on January 27.
Though new infections have fallen sharply and deaths have also stood ata single-digit number on recent days and continued to decrease, HCM City isstill urging people to comply with the 5K principle and drastically pushingahead with vaccination, especially the administration of booster doses, so asto enhance herd immunity.
Health authoritieswill make a list of all people who have yet to be inoculated, those eligiblefor receiving the second and third doses, as well as unvaccinated COVID-19patients so as to prepare for the vaccination.
During Tet,each district will have one fixed vaccination site and can also organise mobileones.
In terms of the Omicron cases, Nguyen Hong Tam,Deputy Director of HCM City’s Centre for Disease Control, said the city hasrecorded 92 infections of this variant, including 87 imported cases. The fiveothers in the community were all linked with one imported Omicron case, and thetransmission has initially been brought under control./.
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A worker in the Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone in HCM City gets a shot of COVID-19 vaccine (Photo: VNA) 
