Covering the 4th dose of COVID-19 vaccines to protect production activities

Tan Uyen town coordinated with the provincial Management Board of Industrial Parks and clusters, the health sector and businesses to actively propagate and mobilize workers to participate in the 4th booster injection to prevent COVID-19. Many mobile vaccination points have been organized, especially in enterprises and industrial parks to create the most favorable conditions for workers join.

Vaccination against COVID-19 with the 4th dose is carried out at the mobile injection point of Kolon Vietnam Company within Uyen Hung Industrial Cluster of Tan Uyen town

Talking to us, Mr. An-Kyu Kang, Director of Kolon Vietnam Company in Uyen Hung Industrial Complex of Tan Uyen town, reminded: “During the 4th wave of COVID-19 epidemic, workers had not been vaccinated as the risk of disease transmission was very high, so a series of enterprises were forced to suspend their production. Up to now, the province's COVID-19 vaccine coverage has reached a high level, and most workers have had enough basic doses of vaccines to enable production and business activities to return to normal. In order to ensure that the production process does not stop if the disease continues to occur, enterprises should coordinate with industries and localities to propagate and campaign for vaccination of 3rd and 4th doses for workers.”

Being aware of the importance of vaccination against COVID-19, nearly more than 2,000 workers of Kolon Vietnam have received injections of 3rd and 4th dose. Standing side by side with the workers, Mr. Ho Loi Minh Linh, Chairman of the Trade Union of the 2,000-worker company said: “When the sub-variant BA.5 of Omicron was recorded infiltrating our country and could possibly increase the number of infection cases, in the coming time, businesses have determined that vaccination is an effective solution to effectively prevent the disease. Under that spirit, the Board of Directors of the company has helped employees to be vaccinated. Determining that employees' health is a precious resource of enterprises, after injection, employees can rest to recover without being deducted from their attendance points. As a result, employees are very excited when exercising the right to protect health associated with protecting production for the company. In the industrial cluster, many foreign business owners have actively injected the 4th dose and actively propagated vaccination among workers.”

Just finished the 4th booster injection, Mr. Nguyen Quang Tri, a worker of Kolon Vietnam Company, said: “The efforts of the Trade Union and the Board of Directors in coordinating with local authorities to promote vaccination makes employees confident to be voluntarily vaccinated, and protect their own health. We understand that vaccination is about protecting ourselves and the community.”

Ms. Nguyen Thi Tha, Head of the Medical Station of Tan Hiep ward in Tan Uyen town, said that grassroots medical units also strengthened the prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic and made great efforts to deploy injections of vaccine booster dose, and at the same time, promote propaganda to the people to understand the complicated and unpredictable evolution of the disease, and about the BA.5 variant of the SARS-CoV-2 that can cause an outbreak again.

According to the leader of the People's Committee of Tan Uyen Town, and with the focus, drastic direction and speed of effective implementation of solutions, vaccination against Covid-19 was repeated for the 4th time in the area of ​​Tan Uyen town to ensure safety, on schedule; and people are rest assured to bring production, business and life activities back to normal and stable state.

Reported by Tieu My – Van Dung – Translated by Vi Bao