Safely opening schools is dependent on every child being vaccinated against Covid-19. However, according to the assessment of the Ministry of Health, the actual rate of Covid-19 vaccination coverage for children is still low; therefore, the Ministry urged to speed up vaccination for children for safe school opening.
The Ministry of Health has issued the form and procedures for the issuance of Vietnam’s official Covid-19 'vaccine passports’ as well as coordinated with the Ministry of Information and Communications and related agencies to launch of digital vaccine passport, facilitating those who travel to foreign countries for work, study and business.
The Ministry of National Defense received 300,000 doses of Vero-Cell Covid-19 vaccine presented by the Ministry of National Defense of China at a ceremony held at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on February 8.
The Department of Health in Hanoi has temporarily suspended vaccination for high school students following extended expiry while waiting for the Ministry of Health’s guidance.
The independent vaccine safety monitoring board pointed out Anaphylaxis to be the culprit of post-Covid vaccine deaths after receipt of the Vero Cell vaccine when they arrived at the conclusion of the incident.
At noon on November 24, the Department of Health in the Northern Province of Thanh Hoa reported two post-Covid vaccine deaths linked to the Vero Cell Covid-19 vaccine.
The Ministry of Health on November 10 granted conditional approval of Covaxin Covid-19 vaccine produced by India's Bharat Biotech International Limited.
In its temporary guidance on the implementation of Covid-19 testing in districts and Thu Duc city, the Department of Health in Ho Chi Minh City directed localities not to carry out periodic Covid-19 tests in wards, communes, or districts.
86,324 children have been vaccinated against Covid-19 from the beginning of the vaccine rollout including 79,788 children aged 16-17 and 6,536 children aged 12-15 in Ho Chi Minh City. Medical workers have provided treatment to four cases of mild reactions after injection.
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health said that it is developing a Covid-19 vaccination plan for 12-17-year-olds in the city to submit to the municipal People's Committee for approval.
After receiving vaccine doses under the distribution of the Ministry of Health, the Mekong Delta provinces and cities of Can Tho, Soc Trang, Tra Vinh and Ben Tre are mobilizing medical workers and relevant forces to accelerate the vaccination process.
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 Ho Chi Minh City's Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control yesterday said that currently, about 4 percent of the city's population has not received any dose of a Covid-19 vaccine for different reasons; therefore, the committee urged people to get vaccinated by booking vaccination appointment through switchboard 8066.
The Government Office has just sent an official letter to Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long and Head of the Government's Special Working Group and Deputy Minister of National Defense, Senior Lieutenant General Vo Minh Luong to announce the opinion of the Prime Minister on studying, proposing specific regulations to reopen the economy according to HCMC’s proposal.
The HCMC Center for Disease Control and Prevention (HCDC) reported that 332,119 more people received Covid-19 vaccine shots, bringing the total doses administered in the HCMC to 10,117,641 on September 28.
The Ministry of Health on September 10 issued a decision on conditionally approving the Hayat-Vax vaccine for emergency use in Covid-19 prevention and control, making it the seventh Covid-19 vaccine obtaining a licence for emergency use in Vietnam.
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.
According to the latest updated information from the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health, the city health sector has performed vaccination against Covid-19 for 7,049,826 eligible people, including 810,404 ones receiving the second dose from March 8 to September 8.
The Ho Chi Minh City Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control has just unveiled the vaccination campaign with the usage of around 8,145,900 doses for around 7.2 million people aged 18 years and older in the whole city to gain the target of vaccination coverage by the end of the year.
