December 7, at the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council, a media asked, "The first question is, when will the Chinese government open entry prevention and control measures and cancel or adjust the requirements for nucleic acid testing and entry isolation?" The second question is, in order to promote the vaccination rate of the elderly, will the Health Commission decide to introduce vaccination directives, and require the provision of certificates for vaccination or similar measures when entering public places? Why hasn't such an order been introduced so far?
, spokesperson of the National Health Commission and deputy director of the Publicity Department, introduced that the optimization measures of are mainly aimed at epidemic prevention and control in various parts of the country. For measures such as the management of inbound personnel, we will also gradually promote and accelerate the implementation of measures to prevent imported cases in accordance with the law and regulations, and further optimize and improve them.
Director of the Science and Technology Development Center of the National Health Commission and head of the working group of the vaccine R&D team, introduced that we have paid attention to . Some countries have introduced vaccination orders, which is indeed helpful for increasing the vaccination rate in these countries. As Director He Sheng and Director Li Bin just introduced, the vaccination rate of the entire population in our country, including 3-17 years old, has reached 97.5%, and has exceeded 95% aged 18-59 years old. The vaccination rate of the entire population is already very high, and it is also at a relatively high level in the world. At present, why do we formulate vaccination plans for the elderly? That is, the vaccination rate of our elderly is relatively low. However, through this plan, we have also seen that this work has also been very well promoted recently.
In addition, whether you want to introduce this measure just now must be followed by national laws and regulations, and the introduction of vaccination orders cannot be carried out. I think we must also make choices in this regard in accordance with our country's laws and regulations.
