On November 3, 2009, the 33rd meeting held by the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) was convened by the commander-in-chief of CECC, the Vice Premier of the Executive Yuan, Li-Luan Chu. At the meeting, health officials decided to move forward the schedule to vaccinate elementary school students, middle school students, high school students and junior college students against pandemic influenza A (H1N1) because enough of the vaccine is ready and safety-tested.

According to CECC, the first batch of domestically produced vaccine has been received.On October 31, 2009, a discussion meeting to decide the appropriateness and possibility of moving forward the pandemic influenza A (H1N1) vaccination schedule was convened by Deputy Minister of the Department of Health Shen-Chwen Chang.The meeting recommended sticking with the original plan to wait for the result of human clinical trials before implementing the two-dose H1N1 vaccine regimen.Further, the meeting also recommended moving forward the schedule to vaccinate students.Students were originally schedule to receive the vaccine on December 1, 2009.Through videoconferencing, the Director of the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control Kuo and representatives from the 25 cities and counties in the nation finalized the plan to move forward the schedule to vaccinate elementary students on November 16, 2009 (Monday), middle school students on November 23, 2009 (Monday), and high school and junior college students on November 30, 2009 (Monday).

CECC once again urged parents to bring infants aged above 6 months and below 1 year along with the infant’s ID card, National Health Insurance card and child healthcare handbook to the designated location (548 contracted hospitals in the nation) to receive vaccination.On the other hand, the vaccination of pregnant women is scheduled to begin on November 16, 2009.In light of recent concerns regarding the safety of the H1N1 vaccine in pregnant women, the World Health Organization announced that any forms of the vaccine, adjuvanted and non- adjuvanted, are safe for pregnant women.CECC stressed that since pregnant women are one of the at-risk groups for pandemic influenza (H1N1) infection, they are urged to get the vaccine in order to reduce their chance of infection.