The first batch of 703,000 doses of Moderna's next-generation BA.4/5 bivalent vaccine purchased this year will arrive at Taoyuan International Airport tomorrow morning, and will be available for people over 12 years old to receive booster doses from November 18.

(provided by the command center)

[Reporter Qiu Zhirou/Taipei Report] Wang Bisheng, commander of the Central Epidemic Command Center, said today (9th) that the first batch of 703,000 doses of Moderna's next-generation BA.4/5 bivalent vaccine purchased this year will be released tomorrow morning. Arriving at Taoyuan International Airport, the supplementary dose will be provided to people over 12 years old from November 18.

The command center pointed out that this batch of vaccines is valid until June 27, 2023; on July 22 last year, my country signed a 2-year supply contract for a total of 35 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine with the American company Moderna, and it is scheduled to supply 20 million doses of the vaccine this year. , including this batch of vaccines, a total of 13.338 million doses have arrived.

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Wang Bisheng said that at present, the BA.5 virus strain is still the mainstream in China. The vaccine that came in this time is the Modena BA.4/5 bivalent vaccine. Active vaccination, in addition, the BA.1 bivalent vaccine is also continuously open for vaccination, and the effect is also quite good.

Zhuang Renxiang, a spokesman for the command center, also announced the latest COVID-19 vaccination situation in China. The coverage rate of the first dose of the 6-month-to-4-year-old group was 43.8%, and the second dose was 17.3%.

The coverage rate of the entire Chinese population vaccinated is 93.9% for the first dose, 88.3% for the second dose, 74% for the supplementary dose, and 16.2% for the second supplementary dose, of which the second supplementary dose for those over 65 years old is 42.5%.

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