Yesterday, the Ministry of Health issued its decision 457. As per the new decision, the Ministry of Health agreed to use the Pfizer vaccine to inoculate children between the ages of 5 and 11 years old as well as the Covid-19 vaccine dosage.
Ho Chi Minh City recorded that the hospitalized Covid-19 patients have been less than the discharged and the number of severe coronavirus patients under ventilator treatment has recently been decreasing.
The Vietnamese health ministry's vaccine advisory body has just announced that mRNA Covid-19 vaccines manufactured by Pfizer and Moderna can be used interchangeably as first and second doses, amid supply shortage.
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.
After one-week vaccination rollout in Vietnam, several people were reported to experience severe post-vaccine reactions. According to Dr. Tran Dac Phu, former Head of the Department of Preventive Medicine, these reactions are common.
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.