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Nie Dequan will try out Nie Dequan next week for home injection

2022-03-26T03:41:04.413Z


Amid the epidemic, the vaccination rate of the elderly still needs to catch up. The Secretary for the Civil Service in charge of the vaccine program, Mr Nip Tak-kuen, said today (26th) that the vaccination work has reached the "tough" stage, and the government will launch home vaccination


Amid the epidemic, the vaccination rate of the elderly still needs to catch up. The Secretary for the Civil Service in charge of the vaccine programme, Mr Nip Tak-kuen, said today (26th) that the vaccination work has reached the "tough" stage. The government will launch a home vaccination registration platform for the disabled and the elderly. Sign up for door-to-door vaccination, which will be piloted through regional organizations next week, and will be open to the public for registration later.


Nie Dequan pointed out on the radio program that the home vaccination plan only arranges Kexing vaccines for the time being, and it is necessary to study the actual supporting arrangements, such as how to deal with the 15-minute rest time after the injection.


Door-to-door injections can reach people with reduced mobility

Nie Dequan pointed out that the government has set up a number of vaccination points for the vaccination of the elderly in the community, including community vaccination centers and mobile vaccination vehicles, which are basically "needles and others". A lot of manpower and material resources are expensive in terms of cost-effectiveness alone, but the government wants to reach the elderly and disabled people with reduced mobility.

He said that the government will set up a home vaccination registration platform for people with limited mobility, and the authorities will arrange outreach teams to give home injections according to the area where the applicants live.

He said that the authorities are organizing medical outreach teams to conduct door-to-door vaccinations, and are studying the details of implementation, such as what to do with the 15-minute rest period after the injection. It seems that it is not convenient for nurses to stay and wait for 15 minutes.

We are arranging for the outreach team of Fubitai to dilute the injection before going to the hospital

As for the elderly in residential care homes for the elderly, Nie Dequan pointed out that the goal is for the outreach team to visit the residential homes twice in April to vaccinate the elderly who have been infected with the virus, as well as the second and third injections for the suitable elderly. Only less than 10% of the family members of the elders in residential care homes for the elderly opposed the injection, and the outreach team will explain to the family members.

He pointed out that the authorities are arranging for the outreach team of Fubitai to give injections to the institutions, and will use the community vaccination center as the "base" to dilute the injections and then deliver them to the institutions for vaccination.

It is estimated that 15% of children are reluctant to get injections, and 90% of them are expected to reduce the risk after school

The government announced earlier that the two-shot vaccination rate for school children must reach 90% before full-day face-to-face classes can resume.

Nie Dequan said that at present, the first vaccination rate for children aged 3 to 11 is about 59%, a rapid increase but has slowed down recently. It is estimated that 15% of children cannot be vaccinated because of the infection or their family members are infected, and 15% are unwilling to have injections. The authorities And the pediatrician will do more interpretive work.

He hopes to reach 90% of the vaccination rate as soon as possible, because sporadic outbreaks are expected to occur after the resumption of classes, hoping to reduce severe disease and mortality.

In addition, he mentioned that among those who have been vaccinated with three doses of the vaccine, 25% of those who received the first two doses of Kexing were transferred to Fubitai for the third dose; and 90% of those who received the first two doses of Fubitai continued to receive the vaccine. Fubitai.

The first two injections are used for Kexing, every four people, the third injection is transferred to Bitai

Nie Dequan emphasized that in the anti-epidemic work, the government and civil servants have the main responsibility. In addition to the core anti-epidemic departments, the disciplined forces are involved in the management of isolation facilities and case tracking, and 47 policy bureaus and departments are also involved in the quarantine and forced inspection, calling on all departments The head of the department often explained the anti-epidemic work of the department to let the outside world know the situation.

Fan Hongling talks about lessons: the epidemic is stable and the best efforts are not done Guzhen should strengthen the protection of the elderly in the institutions. The DAB sent a letter to the Education Bureau to expand the "vaccine passport" to students aged 3 to 11. Guan Haoming Li Zhenqiang wrote to Chen Zhaoshi to advocate antibody testing for recovered patients Accepting the "Vaccine Pass" requires Carrie Lam: Although the mortality rate of the elderly is high, some of them have nothing to do with the new crown. The family should let the elderly vaccinate the new crown oral drug. Most schoolchildren should be vaccinated before school starts, but it is difficult to see the effect of vaccine pass

Source: hk1

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