Litchi News Beijing Work Department Reporter / Kou Cheng
On the afternoon of March 25, the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council held a press conference to introduce the scientific and accurate and unremitting efforts to grasp the epidemic prevention and control work, and answer questions from the media.
At the press conference, Lei Zhenglong, deputy director of the Disease Control Bureau of the National Health Commission and a first-level inspector, introduced the situation of COVID-19 vaccination in the mainland so far. As of March 24, the country has reported a total of 3,243,599,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines, the total number of vaccinations has reached 1,275,541,000, and 1,240,777,000 people have been vaccinated, covering 90.47% of the total population of the country, and the number of people vaccinated throughout the country accounting for 88.01% of the total population.
Among them, the number of covid-19 vaccination coverage for the elderly over 60 years old reached 222.719 million people, 212.153 million people were vaccinated throughout the whole process, and 138.237 million people were vaccinated. Up to now, the vaccination rate of the elderly over 60 years old in Jiangxi, Anhui and Shandong provinces has exceeded 90%. More than 85% of the seven provinces and cities of Chongqing, Henan, Hubei, Guizhou, Hebei, Sichuan and Yunnan.
Wang Huaqing, chief expert of the immunization program of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, stressed that the elderly are one of the highest priority groups for vaccination against the new crown virus. At present, the new crown virus vaccine has requirements for the lower age limit, and there is no provision for the upper limit of age, as long as it is a person over 3 years old, these vaccines can be vaccinated.
Referring to the problem of contraindications for the elderly, Wang Huaqing introduced that if the elderly have had an allergic reaction when they have received the new crown vaccine, or have had a serious allergic reaction when they have received other vaccines in the past, they cannot be vaccinated. There are also cases where some slow measures need to be taken to avoid coupling. If you are suffering from uncontrolled neurological diseases, including Green bari, transverse myelitis, demyelinating disease, etc., if there is no control, you should temporarily postpone the planting. In addition, if you are in the acute onset of a chronic disease, or if you are having a fever, you should slow down in this case.
Wang Huaqing especially reminded that there are more basic diseases in the elderly friends, in this case, if the underlying disease or chronic disease is in a state of attack, or an unstable state, it is suspended, if your own judgment is not accurate, you can consult a clinician, or tell the situation to the vaccination doctor, by them to make a judgment, you can wait for the disease to stabilize and then receive the new crown virus vaccine.