Ministry of Health: 4th Covid-19 vaccine injection at least 4 months after 3rd injection

The above information was stated in an official dispatch from the Department of Preventive Medicine, Ministry of Health sent to the Central Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology on April 28.

According to the Department of Preventive Medicine, on April 25, the Ministry of Health's Vaccine Advisory Council held a meeting to review the implementation of vaccination, including the second booster shot (4th dose). At the meeting, the Council agreed on the spacing of the 4th dose.Covid-19 vaccinewill be at least 4 months from the 3rd dose.

The subjects of vaccination are people aged 50 and over; people aged 18 and over with moderate to severe immunodeficiency; people aged 18 and over in high-risk groups exposed to Covid-19: medical staff, frontline staff, workers in industrial parks.

On April 22, Nghe An received an additional 48,600 doses of Moderna vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 (phase 2) from the Ministry of Health. Photo: My Ha

The vaccine used will be an mRNA vaccine (produced by Pfizer or Moderna); an AstraZeneca vaccine or a vaccine of the same type as the 3rd dose. People who have had the 3rd dose and contracted Covid-19 will have to wait 3 months after recovering from the disease to get the 4th dose.

The Department of Preventive Medicine requested the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology to review and update information on the fourth dose and develop a plan for the fourth dose of the Covid-19 vaccine and send it to the Ministry of Health.

By the end of April 27, the total number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered nationwide was 213,645,290. Of which, the rate of first and second doses in adults was almost 100%. However, the rate of third dose injection is still slow.

At a recent online meeting, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long asked localities to quickly deploy vaccination campaigns, complete the third injection for adults and cover children aged 5-11 in the second quarter of this year.