Cctv newsOn January 25th, a press conference was held in National Health Commission to introduce the prevention and control of infectious diseases in winter and spring and the prevention and response of common diseases during festivals. When answering a reporter’s question, Lei Zheng Long, deputy director of the National Health Commission Municipal Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention, said that with the successive arrival of vaccines, the supply has been basically balanced.
Reporter: It is reported that after the vaccine incident last year, there was a shortage of influenza vaccine supply in our country. Is there any data or what it is? Are there any measures to improve it?
Lei Zheng Long: Because the vaccine manufacturers’ acquisition of influenza vaccine strains from the World Health Organization and the purchase of standard reagents were delayed by two months compared with previous years, the relevant work was delayed accordingly, which led to the time when influenza vaccines were started in previous years, and there were cases where vaccination sites had not yet started. However,With the subsequent arrival of vaccines, the current supply has been basically balanced.
According to our statistics on the use of influenza vaccine,At present, 14.26 million vaccines have been purchased and 10.97 million vaccines have actually been vaccinated, which means that some vaccines have not been vaccinated this year. So now the overall supply and demand are basically balanced.