Accordingly, deploying to inject 146,250 doses of Pfizer vaccine distributed, phase 26 to the following subjects: People over 60 years old who have not received the 1st dose; the eople who have received the 1st dose have enough time to receive the 2nd dose (from 3 weeks or more); subjects who postponed vaccination in previous phases due to underlying medical conditions but are eligible for Covid-19 vaccine; pregnant women over 13 weeks or more and breastfeeding mothers.
Particularly for pregnant women, vaccination is only allowed when there is a screening examination by an obstetrician and implementing injection at a hospital or medical facility with an obstetric department.
As reported by the Department of Health, Binh Duong has about 2.3 million people who need to be vaccinated against Covid-19. So far, Binh Duong has received about 1.8 million doses of vaccine from the Ministry of Health, including 773,000 doses of Vero Cell vaccine. As of September 09, 2021, Binh Duong has injected about 1,611,560 doses (1,564,034 1st doses, 47,526 2nd doses).
People in Phu Loi ward go to get Vero Cell vaccine
To inject enough 2 doses for 2.3 million people, Binh Duong needs about 2.7 million more doses of vaccine. Of which, 1.3 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine, 500,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine, 150,000 doses of Moderna vaccine and 750,000 doses of Vero Cell vaccine.
According to information from the Ministry of Health, recently, due to the general scarcity of vaccines, many countries have researched and used injection courses combining two vaccines with the same or different production technology, based on the type of vaccine available at each time, such as injecting viral vector vaccines with mRNA vaccines, or injecting 2 types of mRNA vaccines of different manufacturers, etc.
Stemming from the actual situation, the need to use vaccines for the purpose of increasing coverage, inject early and on time to prevent and control the pandemic, on September 08, 2021 Expert Advisory Council on vaccine use of the Ministry of Health held a meeting and made the following recommendations: In case of force majeure when the Covid-19 vaccine supply of 1st dose injected is not enough for 2nd dose, another vaccine can be used to inject 2nd dose as follows: If the 1st dose of vaccine produced by AstraZeneca is administered, the 2nd dose can be administered with the vaccine manufactured by Pfizer or Moderna; if the 1st dose of vaccine manufactured by Moderna is administered, the 2nd dose can be administered with the vaccine manufactured by Pfizer and vice versa.
The People's Committee of Binh Duong province suggested that people install the "Electronic Health Book" app on their mobile devices to track information on vaccinations and electronic Covid-19 vaccination certificates. People access the Binh Duong Portal (www.binhduong.gov.vn) to view installation instructions; access http://bsttcovid19.binhduong.gov.vn/ to give feedback on the vaccination certificate information; contact Call Center 1022 for advice when necessary.
Reported by Mai Xuan - Translated by Nguyen Trang