'Going from alley to door' to review and speed up the progress of COVID-19 vaccination

On the morning of December 18, the Department of HealthNghe Anheld an online conference to strengthen the prevention and control of COVID-19 and speed up the progress of COVID-19 vaccination. Attending the conference were representatives of leaders of districts, cities, towns and medical units in the province at 65 connecting points.

Nearly 100 Covid-19 infections recorded every day

Information from Nghe An Department of Health: From the beginning of the epidemic to December 17, 2021, the whole province has recorded 6,248 COVID-19 patients in 21 localities. In the past 14 days (December 4-18), the epidemic in the province has had many complicated developments, the province has recorded 1,390 new infections (an average of nearly 100 cases/day, showing no signs of decreasing), with over 66% of infections having no symptoms. 284 cases (20%) were recorded in the community in 20/21 districts/cities/towns.

Attending the conference were representatives of leaders of districts, cities, towns and medical units in the province at 65 connecting points. Photo: Thanh Chung

The epidemic in Nghe An province is posing a high risk and is spreading widely: Community cases are continuously appearing in many localities, because the pathogen already exists in the community, many cases are asymptomatic, have unknown sources of infection and are related to people returning from epidemic areas. The epidemic has penetrated industrial zones, schools, hospitals and some crowded places... The epidemic is at high risk of breaking out strongly during the upcoming holidays and Tet.

Meanwhile, in Nghe An, the number of people over 18 years old who received at least one injectionVaccineCOVID-19 prevention: 1,928,981 (accounting for 98.4% of people over 18 years old actually present in the area). The number of people fully vaccinated with the basic dose is: 1,517,576 people (accounting for 78% of people over 18 years old actually present in the area). 157,157 children have been vaccinated against COVID-19 (accounting for 50% of children aged 12-17 years old, basically covering the first dose for cases of high school age).

However, through surveys and assessments, there are still many cases that have not been vaccinated against COVID-19. This shows that: The work of reviewing, counting statistics, and implementing COVID-19 vaccination in some localities has not been done well.

Need to speed up vaccination progress

At the conference, delegates were trained to implement the Molnupiravir drug use program, guided to implement contents related to patient screening, collecting information forms and organizing commitment signing; Treatment, monitoring of patients, management, dispensing, use, monitoring of adverse events and contents related to pharmaceutical work; Instructions on data collection, reporting, recording treatment information...

Concluding the conference, Associate Professor, Dr. Duong Dinh Chinh - Deputy Commander of the Provincial COVID-19 Prevention and Control Command Center, Director of Nghe An Department of Health stated: In the context of opening up and implementing the plan "Safely and flexibly adapting and effectively controlling the COVID-19 epidemic", the number of infections in the area is increasing rapidly. There are still some shortcomings that need to be overcome in medical isolation, COVID-19 vaccination and admission and treatment of COVID-19 patients...

COVID-19 vaccination for secondary school students. Photo: Duc Anh

Associate Professor, Dr. Duong Dinh Chinh requested localities and medical units to continue to thoroughly grasp and resolutely and comprehensively implement the work of preventing and fighting the COVID-19 epidemic according to the new viewpoints and policies of the Government, the National Steering Committee, the Ministry of Health; the Provincial Steering Committee and the Department of Health; regularly update and adjust plans and strategies for epidemic prevention and control to suit the actual conditions of the locality and the development of the epidemic, according to the motto "4 on-site"; maximize the role of the community COVID team in the work of managing and closely monitoring changes in residence.

Localities need to organize assessments and determine the epidemic level for each commune-level and inter-commune area; urgently speed up the progress of COVID-19 vaccination for people of designated ages; mobilize the participation of the entire political system in reviewing vaccination subjects in the area with the motto "go to every alley, knock on every door", make a specific list of subjects according to each age group to be vaccinated against COVID-19 who have not been vaccinated, receive additional doses of vaccine and repeat according to the instructions of the Ministry of Health. Organize propaganda, mobilize and organize COVID-19 vaccination for people

It is necessary to strengthen the inspection and supervision of the implementation of medical isolation at home and at places of residence in the area; strengthen communication work, continuously in many forms and multimedia (television, newspapers, social networks, loudspeaker systems of communes and wards, etc.) to raise people's awareness of not being subjective, not panicking, as well as correctly understanding and agreeing with epidemic prevention and control measures as well as in implementing vaccination campaigns in the area, continuing to maintain the movement of the whole population participating in epidemic prevention and control in all residential areas, implementing activities strongly, substantially and effectively.