Accelerating Covid-19 vaccination

Nghe An bridge attended the online conference. Photo: Thanh Chung

On the afternoon of October 16, the Ministry of Health coordinated with the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Information and Communications to organize an online conference with 11,000 points nationwide to disseminate some contents on Covid-19 vaccination and solutions to authenticate and connect vaccination data with national population data...

Comrade Bui Dinh Long - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the bridge at the Provincial People's Committee Office.Nghe An. Also attending were representatives of leaders of relevant departments, branches and units.

Speaking at the opening of the conference, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said: At this time, Vietnam is implementing the Covid-19 vaccination campaign. This is the largest vaccination campaign ever with nearly 200 million doses. As of October 15, about 88 million doses of vaccine have arrived in Vietnam and by 2:00 p.m. on October 16, the whole country had vaccinated 61,086,173 doses of Covid-19 vaccine for people.

In general, the implementation of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign has been carried out vigorously and effectively. However, there are still difficulties and shortcomings, especially in the process of entering information into the vaccination software.

Specifically: Many people have been vaccinated but their data has not been entered; errors in information about vaccinated subjects when updating vaccination history such as duplicate subjects, incomplete updated information... leading to vaccination certificate data not being synchronized with the electronic health book application, Covid PC for people.

The current requirement is to accelerate the vaccination of people against Covid-19 to effectively implement Resolution 128/NQ-CP of the Government. The Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Information and Communications, and the Ministry of Public Security need to closely coordinate in connecting data, synchronizing the vaccination system to collect national population data, using population data as a standard... Thereby, effectively performing the task of preventing and fighting the Covid-19 epidemic, managing vaccination as well as creating convenience for people.

At the conference, delegates were informed of the joint plan between the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Information and Communications, and the Ministry of Public Security to connect and share Covid-19 vaccination data with the national population database; leaders of the Ministry of Public Security briefed all levels and units in the Public Security sector on the implementation of the joint plan; leaders of the Ministry of Information and Communications briefed on the application of technology in Covid-19 prevention and control.

Representatives of agencies and localities said that there were advantages and disadvantages in the process of deploying Covid-19 vaccination and data entry in the past time. Localities highly appreciated the importance of data connection and communication, creating favorable conditions for exploiting and managing information quickly and accurately.

TAs of 6:00 p.m. on October 15, 2021, Nghe An had administered 831,238 vaccinations. Of these, 739,981 people over 18 years old had received at least 1 vaccination; 91,498 people had received 2 vaccinations. The rate of people receiving the first vaccination updated to the software was 757,224/812,682, reaching 93%.

Nghe An province requests the Ministry of Health to allocate vaccines to Nghe An to increase vaccine coverage; provide timely guidance on vaccination.Covid-19for children aged 12-17 to be implemented in October./.