The command center announced that from December 2, children aged 6 to 11 will be vaccinated with the Moderna BA.5 bivalent next-generation vaccine as an additional dose, and children aged 5 to under 6 will be provided with BNT monovalent vaccine (children) dosage form) as a booster inoculation.

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[Reporter Qiu Zhirou/Taipei Report] The Wuhan pneumonia (new coronavirus disease, COVID-19) epidemic in China still uses BA.5 as the mainstream virus strain, while children aged 5 to 11 in my country are currently only inoculated with two basic doses to maintain protection Zhuang Renxiang, spokesperson of the Central Epidemic Command Center, announced today (28th) that starting from December 2, children aged 6 to 11 will be vaccinated with the Moderna BA.5 bivalent next-generation vaccine as an additional dose, and children aged 5 to Children under the age of 6 are provided with BNT monovalent vaccine (children's dosage form) as a booster vaccination.

Zhuang Renxiang said that children aged 5 to 11 in my country currently only receive two basic doses, and children aged 5 to 11 will be allowed to receive supplementary doses from December 2.

Among them, the moderna BA.5 bivalent next-generation vaccine can be used as a supplementary dose for 6 to 11 years old, and the monovalent vaccine of BNT children's dosage form is provided as a supplementary dose for children aged 5 to 6 years old.

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As for the interval between supplementary doses, Zhuang Renxiang said that the supplementary dose should be inoculated at least 3 months after the last dose of basic dose, that is, 12 weeks (84 days).

Zhuang Renxiang also said that the education bureau and the county and city health bureaus are currently being asked to cooperate in planning, and additional doses of children aged 5 to 11 will be vaccinated in schools.

For supplementary vaccinations for teenagers aged 12 to 17, 12 counties and cities currently plan to have vaccinations in schools from late November to the end of December.

The command center also appealed that this is the first time to provide supplementary vaccination for children aged 5 to 11 in China. After the vaccination, parents can scan the instructions provided by the vaccination unit or scan the QR code on the poster to join the "Taiwan V-Watch" vaccination -Health return system, through which parents pay attention to the observation of their children's post-vaccination conditions, remind them to seek medical treatment and understand common discomforts after vaccination.

In addition, those who have not yet completed the vaccination of the basic dose should complete the vaccination as soon as possible.

Moderna's next-generation bivalent vaccine only provides booster vaccinations. The command center has recently opened up additional vaccinations for people over the age of 12, and will expand to children over the age of 6 from December.

Commander Wang Bisheng emphasized, "It is still necessary to vaccinate!" The most important job at this stage is still to vaccinate. The BA.5 next-generation vaccine is the most advanced and most effective vaccine developed so far. That's enough, I hope everyone takes the time to get vaccinated and protect themselves.

According to the statistics of the command center, the coverage rate of the latest COVID-19 vaccination population in China is 94% for the first dose, 88.6% for the second dose, 74.2% for the supplementary dose, and 17.4% for the second supplementary dose. Among them, the vaccination rate for people over 65 years old is 43.1%.

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