11/23/2009 10:00:00 am
ゆき Ezura
THE first shipment of 1,500 Influenza A (H1N1) doses of vaccines has arrived in Brunei on Monday (2nd November 09), with another 476,000 doses expected to be available for the entire population by the end of January 2010.
The minister told The Brunei Times that the vaccines have only arrived recently although they were scheduled to be released in August, as the vaccines were still in production and had to be tested.
As the country will have a total of 6,000 doses of H1N1 vaccines today, the minister said that 900 of these will be allocated for Haj pilgrims who started their journey yesterday.
Director-general of Health Services Dr Hjh Rahmah Hj Mohd Said said that children aged above six months to 10 years needed to be vaccinated twice, four weeks apart (if they wanted to be vaccinated). However, anyone who intended to be vaccinated over 10 years of age only requires one dose.
He advised the public to try and refrain from visiting cold countries during the upcoming holidays, and urged the public to constantly take precautionary measures. To date, as many as 1,170 people in Brunei have been affected with the virus, according to the ministry, with the most recent case recorded on October 26.
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