The Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) revealed the latest updates on the COVID-19 vaccination guidelines as follows:
- How is the annual COVID-19 vaccine given?
- 1 injection per year, starting from 2023 onwards
- injection since April before entering the rainy season
- spray away from the last needle or last infection for at least 3 months
- can be given together with the flu vaccine By injecting each side of the upper arm
- If injected with flu vaccine how many days away
*Who should be vaccinated?
- People aged 60 and over, 7 chronic disease groups, pregnant women and children under 5 to reduce the risk of serious illness or complications
- People in occupations that touch large numbers of people or in crowded places such as correctional facilities to reduce the risk of transmission
- medical and public health personnel outpost Village Health Volunteers (VHVs) to maintain the country’s public health system.
*What type of vaccine should be given? and several months apart
- All types of vaccines, from all generations, can be injected as a booster needle.
- people who have never been vaccinated and never been infected, inject 2 injections 1-2 months apart
- people who have been vaccinated or have been infected 1 booster injection per year
