Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of HCMC Duong Anh Duc signed a document No.1591/KH-UBND on providing fourth shots of Covid-19 vaccine building sustainable herd immunity to the disease in the community.
From December 10, the Ho Chi Minh City government’s Covid-19 booster vaccination rollout program will officially get underway, with the initial focus on residential aged care and people with diseases.
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.
According to the Ministry of Health, the localities can proactively reduce the gap of the second dose vaccination using AstraZeneca or Pfizer vaccines for those who got their first shots of AstraZeneca vaccine to four weeks.
Until the end of October 6, approximately 11,965,360 shots had been administered, some 4,951,439 people have got the second dose of Covid-19 vaccines accounting for 68.7 percent, said the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control (HCDC) today.
The Ministry of Health yesterday sent its document to departments nationwide asking to follow its instruction of interval between two shots of Covid-19 vaccine.
As the Ministry of Health has not yet given feedback on the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health’s proposal to reduce the interval between the first and second shot of AstraZeneca vaccine to six weeks, the city health sector still keeps it unchanged at 8-12 weeks following the Ministry’s guidance, said Dr. Nguyen Huu Hung, Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health.
Pham Duc Hai, deputy head of the Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control in Ho Chi Minh City, said the city recorded 160 Covid-19 related deaths yesterday. The number was lower than the daily death toll in early August when it hit 340.
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.
More than 2 million doses of Covid-19 AstraZeneca vaccine arrived in Tan Son Nhat Airport in Ho Chi Minh City on September 1, according to the Vietnam Vaccine JSC (VNVC).
A batch of Covid-19 vaccines, including 1,209,400 doses of AstraZeneca, was officially handed over to the Ministry of Health (MoH) by Vietnam Vaccine Joint Stock Company (VNVC) on the morning of August 22. This is the ninth batch of vaccines brought to Vietnam by VNVC on August 19, under the pre-order contract of 30 million doses between VNVC and AstraZeneca.
CEO of AstraZeneca Pascal Soriot has pledged to deliver Covid-19 vaccines to Vietnam on schedule as well as increase vaccine supplies to the country this month.
Amid the Covid-19 surges following Ho Chi Minh City, Southern provinces and cities of Binh Duong, Tay Ninh, Ba Ria – Vung Tau, Tien Giang, Long An, Can Tho and Soc Trang have been accelerating the vaccination process for local people to conquer the current pandemic development.
President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on August 18 sent a letter to President of the European Council Charles Michel suggesting the European Union (EU) share Covid-19 vaccines to Vietnam, in an effort to step up the vaccine diplomacy strategy.
As many as 1,113,400 doses of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine arrived in Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City on August 13 morning, according to the Vietnam Vaccine Company (VNVC).
HCMC has proposed the Government to allocate 5-5.5 million doses of vaccine for the sixth phase of the city’s Covid-19 vaccination program that begins today and runs until the end of August. The city has set the target of administering vaccine to Southern metropolis’s residents above 18 years old in August.
The Office of People's Committee in the Mekong Delta Province of An Giang today said that competent authorities have thrown the book at Hanh Phuc General Hospital in Long Xuyen City fining the infirmary VND50 million (US$2,272) for posting wrong information of registration for paid vaccine services.
