Covid-19 vaccine

The Prime Minister has directed the Ministry of Health to prepare a document for a declaration of an end to the Covid-19 epidemic in Vietnam.

Vietnam deliberates the downgrading of Covid-19 from its current placement in Class A infectious diseases down to Class B.

The 15th National Assembly will spend a whole day on May 29 to examine the mobilization, management and use of resources for Covid-19 prevention and control.

People will continue benefiting from free Covid-19 vaccinations in 2023, and funding will come from the state budget, the Covid-19 Vaccine Fund, with sponsorship from domestic and foreign organisations and individuals, along with other legal sources.

The rate of people dying from Covid-19 in Vietnam is at 0.37 percent, still higher than the rate from other infectious diseases which is at 0.09 percent, said a senior health official.

People's negligent attitude towards the disease would fail in prevention tasks.

The Ministry of Health has recently issued a plan to carry out a program on ensuring vaccine supply until 2030.

According to the Ministry of Health, Vietnam recorded a decrease in Covid cases yet the number of severe cases was on the rise yesterday.

Chairman of HCMC People’s Committee Phan Van Mai has just signed an urgent dispatch to related state departments, agencies as to Covid-19 prevention tasks during the upcoming national holiday.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health has just issued a Covid-19 vaccination plan to booster doses for residents at 59 vaccination sites in 22 districts and Thu Duc City.

The Pasteur Institute of HCMC had identified new Omicron sub-variants from samples of community epidemiological surveillance conducted by the HCMC Center for Disease Control (HCDC), including XBB.1.5, XBB.1.9.1, XBB.1.16, and XBB.1.16.1.

Amidst the rapidly increasing number of new cases of Covid-19, the Health Ministry has urged continued efforts to accelerate vaccination against Covid-19.

Yesterday evening, the Ministry of Health said that the country recorded 1,522 new cases of Covid-19, this is the highest number of cases recorded in a day in more than 6 months.

On the afternoon of April 17, the Vietnamese Ministry of Health said that during the day, the country recorded an additional 1,031 cases of Covid-19 which is the highest number of Covid-19 cases per day recorded since mid-October 2022.

The National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology under the Health Ministry recently sent a dispatch on strengthening the implementation of vaccination and supplementation of the AstraZeneca vaccine against the Covid-19 pandemic from April to June.

Vietnamese Ministry of Health yesterday announced the country recorded 183 cases of Covid-19 without deaths in the day.

More than VND236 trillion (US$10 billion) had been mobilized to directly serve the Covid-19 prevention and control as of December 31, 2022, according to a report by a National Assembly (NA) supervisory delegation.

The Vietnamese delegation, led by Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang, made active contributions to the agenda of the 52nd regular session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) that concluded in Geneva on April 4.

World Health Organization representative in Vietnam Dr Angela Pratt said that Vietnam is in sustainable management phase of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Vietnam always values the promotion of friendly relations and strategic partnership with Australia, President Vo Van Thuong told Australian Ambassador to Vietnam Andrew Goledzinowski during a reception in Hanoi on March 17.