On February 26, the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council held a press conference to introduce the situation of epidemic prevention and control and vaccination. At the meeting, Wu Liangyou, deputy director of the National Health and Medical Commission’s Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention, introduced that according to the deployment of the State Council’s joint prevention and control mechanism, we continue to guide local governments to promote the vaccination of the new coronavirus vaccine in a stable and orderly manner in accordance with the principle of voluntary informed consent. As of February 25, a total of 3.114622 billion doses of the new coronavirus vaccine have been reported nationwide, the total number of vaccinations has reached 1.269302 billion, 1.23454 billion people have been fully vaccinated, and 554.728 million people have been boosted. Among them, the number of people over the age of 60 covered by the new crown virus vaccine reached 219.911 million, and 211.066 million people were vaccinated in the whole process.
We have introduced the progress of vaccination to you at the previous press conferences. Recently, we have carried out a number of work deployments focusing on the elderly over 60 years old and the strengthening of immunization. Sequential booster immunizations have been introduced, providing the masses with a variety of booster vaccination options.
In order to further standardize the vaccination work, ensure the safety of vaccination, and improve the quality of service, we have specially conducted a comprehensive training for the relevant personnel of vaccination, and put forward clear requirements on the implementation of vaccination, information registration, medical treatment, etc. . All localities have been accumulating experience in vaccination practice, and have made organizational arrangements in accordance with the requirements of strengthening immunization work.
Recently, the new crown pneumonia epidemic has occurred in many places in China. Here we also emphasize that vaccination is still the key means of epidemic prevention and control. We hereby appeal to everyone, please qualified personnel to complete the new crown virus vaccine strengthening as soon as possible Immunization, please take the initiative to vaccinate elderly friends over 60 years old, especially those over 80 years old, who have no contraindications, so as to protect their own health and contribute to controlling the epidemic as soon as possible.