Under the Ministry of Health’s guidance on Covid-19 booster shots, vaccine recipients will get the vaccine type that they originally received or Moderna vaccine mRNA or AstraZeneca vaccine.
The Municipal Department of Health proposed the Ministry of Health to consider and give directions on shortening the gap of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccination between the first and the second shots to at least six weeks.
Ho Chi Minh City has taken social distancing measures against the coronavirus for eight days when the southern metropolis must implement drastic measures to separate Covid-19-infected people from the community stopping the transmission.
Knowing the vaccination demand is high as the disease has been developing complicatedly, advertising of Covid-19 vaccination services have gone viral on social media lately.
The National Steering Board for Covid-19 Prevention and Control this morning announced additional 80 new coronavirus infection cases including two imported cases in the Southern Province of Dong Nai.
Vietnamese Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long yesterday required the enhancement of safety measures in the Covid-19 vaccination drive by issuing the instruction No. 05.
The Department of Preventive Medicine has received a letter from COVAX Facility informing the delayed coronavirus vaccine delivery to Vietnam, said the Ministry of Health yesterday evening.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, head of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, on Friday chaired a meeting on COVID-19 'vaccine passports'.
Vietnam is expected to get 5.657 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19 in March and April, according to the National Expanded Immunization Program.
Vietnam will receive 5,657,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine in March and April, all made by AstraZeneca, according to the National Expanded Immunisation Program.
Vietnam launches its COVID-19 inoculation drive on March 8 morning, administering the AstraZeneca vaccine to medical workers in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and northern Hai Duong province – the country’s biggest pandemic hotspot at present.
Health workers in quarantine wards will be the first to receive Covid-19 vaccine shots for free from March 1, said Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long.
