Vietnam logged 3,979 cases of Covid-19 from 7:30pm July 24 to 6am July 25, raising the national tally to 94,913, with 92,735 cases detected in the community, according to the Health Ministry.
More than 2 million doses of Covid-19 Moderna vaccine supplied by the US Government through the COVAX Facility arrived in Vietnam early July 10, according to the UNICEF in Vietnam.
The first shipment of some 96,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech will be delivered to Hanoi on July 7 morning, according to the Vietnamese health ministry.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam had an online discussion on June 17 with the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for the Western Pacific Takeshi Kasai, who vowed to work for the early delivery of COVID-19 vaccines under the COVAX Facility to Vietnam.
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.
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.
The Ministry of Health has listed 11 groups of individuals that will be the first to receive Covid-19 vaccination in the country as per the distribution plan of vaccine for the 2021-2022 period.