The Ministry of Health said it proposed the Government buy 21.9 million doses of Pfizer vaccine to inject children 5-11 years old, accepting that there may be an excess of the vaccine. Information stated in the conference by the Ministry of Health Summary of health work in 2021 and tasks and solutions in 2022, January […]
Ho Chi Minh City maintains 391 mobile medical stations across the city although the number of new infections has decreased, in order to be ready to cope with the Omicron mutation. On the afternoon of January 10, Chief of Office of the Department of Health Nguyen Thi Huynh Mai said at a press conference on […]
Some scientists believe that the annual Covid-19 vaccine should be administered, while others consider this an expensive, unstable and ineffective strategy in the long run. A year ago, experts and the community believed that two doses of Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca vaccines or one dose of Johnson & Johnson were enough to prevent Covid-19 infection. To […]
With two “homegrown” vaccines, Abdala and Soberana 02, Cuba surpasses many developed countries in vaccination speed, helping to reduce the rate of nCoV infection deeply. In the 19th century, General Máximo Gómez, a key figure in Cuba’s wars of independence with Spain, once said: “The Cubans either failed to achieve their goal, or far exceeded […]
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on January 3 approved a booster dose of Pfizer vaccine for children 12 to 15 years old. The agency also shortened the time between the second and third shots from 6 months to 5 months in this age group. Dr Janet Woodcock, acting FDA commissioner, said: “With the […]
Assessing the difficulty of predicting Covid-19 in 2022, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health set nine goals, mainly for epidemic control based on lessons learned over the past time. During the 4th epidemic, the health sector still has many limitations in forecasting, testing, treatment, and grassroots medical capacity has not met the needs…, […]
Some experts support the idea of injecting more than three doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, similar to the hepatitis B vaccination campaign, to boost immunity against the Omicron strain. The Omicron strain spread at breakneck speed. Three weeks after appearing in the US, it became the dominant strain, accounting for 73% of all F0 cases, […]
On December 24, the Ministry of Health allowed short-term entry people without medical isolation, but must strictly and fully comply with regulations on epidemic prevention and control. This decision is stated in the Ministry of Health Medical guidance for the prevention and control of Covid-19 epidemic for people who are allowed to enter Vietnam for […]
The Ministry of Health asked localities to review all imported cases from November 28 to now that have tested positive, and sequence the virus gene to identify the Omicron variant. The proposal was stated by the Ministry of Health in an official dispatch sent to localities on December 17, guiding the surveillance and prevention of […]
Within a few weeks of its appearance, Omicron prompted many countries to accelerate their booster injections, consider using vaccine passports and re-impose travel restrictions. Rich countries, with abundant vaccine resources that once expected the pandemic to have receded, must now reassess the situation. Many countries have been accused of overreacting. The head of the South […]