Government plans to make Dec. 12 national H1N1 immunization day
ROC Central News Agency
2009/11/30 22:59:41
(By Deborah Kuo)
Taipei, Nov. 30 (CNA) The government is planning to make Dec. 12 the national day of immunization against influenza A(H1N1), with the nation's entire population expected to get a shot against the highly infectious disease from that day, the health minister said Monday.
It is hoped that all people in the country, regardless of ages or priority order, can go to the designated hospitals, clinics or injection stops for a vaccination shot from Dec. 12, Department of Health Minister Yaung Chih-liang said.
"The greater the number of people who get immunized, the better the efficiency of collective immunization will be, " Yaung said during a hearing at the Legislative Yuan.
About 8.75 percent of Taiwan's population, or some 2 million people, have been vaccinated based on an order of priority prescribed by the government against influenza A(H1N1), also known as swine flu, as of Monday, according to statistics from the Central Epidemics Command Center.
The national immunization program began on Nov. 1.
Of those immunized, one elementary school student died seven days later, but the death was not caused by the H1NI virus or the H1N1 vaccination shot, said Steve Kuo, director-general of the Centers for Disease Control.
Another junior high school student, who became partially paralyzed after receiving the H1N1 vaccination, is getting better now, Kuo added.
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