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2020.05.04 12:09 GMT+8

Answer Bank: Which vaccines should not be postponed amid coronavirus?

Updated 2020.05.04 12:09 GMT+8
Zhang Ziyu

Efforts should be made to ensure routine vaccination and other medical services during the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). 

Delays in some vaccinations could have negative health effects, so which vaccines are not suggested to be postponed?

1. Hepatitis B vaccine and Bacillus Calmette Guerin vaccine for newborns. Children under three months can be vaccinated directly. Skin tests are required for children aged three months to three years before getting the shot, according to Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

2. Rabies vaccine for people who were attacked by animals, which including bitten or scratched by animals. 

3. Tetanus vaccine for people with unclean or contaminated cuts. Those people who got the Tetanus vaccine in the latest five years won't need another shot.  

4. Measles vaccine for children who are 12 months through 12 years of age.

You can call the vaccination clinic or local center for disease control and prevention to ask about the vaccines and book in advance. 

Parents need to inform the doctors about the children's health condition before vaccination.

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