
Vaccination of 5-Year-Olds Starts on Monday Coincides with the End of Vaccination Campaign for First Dose
Phnom Penh: The Ministry of Health has announced on Saturday night that 5-year old children across Cambodia will receive their vaccines against COVID-19, starting from Monday, 1 November.
The interval between 1st and 2nd doses is 28 days, the ministry says the same vaccine, Sinovac will be administered for the 5-year-old kids.
Cambodia has currently been conducting four COVID-19 vaccination campaigns: for the 18 years old and up which has achieved 99.98 percent, the 12 to under 18 years old 97.88 percent, the 6 to under 12 years old 101.16 percent, and the 3rd dose or booster dose for already 1,831,190 people.
The Kingdom has so far vaccinated about 85.66 percent of the total population of 16 million.The country will hold a symbolic ceremony to mark the end of the national COVID-19 vaccination campaign for first dose on Monday.