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.
Vietnam will export 2 million doses of vaccines against African swine fever (ASF) to the Philippines and Indonesia between August and October this year.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in partnership with UNICEF, has delivered 590 vaccine refrigerators to the Vietnamese Ministry of Health.
In order to live safely and adapt to the pandemic, after completing vaccination campaigns against Covid-19 for people 12 years of age and older, Ho Chi Minh City is prepared to administer the Covid-19 vaccine for children aged 5-11 years old.
Dr. Takeshi Kasai, WHO Representative in Vietnam, highly appreciated the results Vietnam has achieved in implementing the Covid-19 vaccination campaign, becoming a bright spot in vaccination and being one of the six countries with a high vaccination coverage rate.
An exhibition looking back on one year of fighting against Covid-19 in HCMC was organized by the Steering Committee on Covid-19 Prevention and Control of Phu Nhuan District on May 29.
Amidst the complicated and unprecedented fourth pandemic outbreak, the districts and Thu Duc City are focusing on accelerating the Covid-19 vaccination campaigns to soon achieve community immunity, control the pandemic and turn them into new-normal.
Thu Duc City and many districts of Ho Chi Minh City have basically completed the largest-ever vaccination campaign for the elderly at Covid-19 vaccination points in the localities and hospitals.
In response to the call for people’s uniting in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, Vietnamese medical staff at the level-2 field hospital in South Sudan all donated money to support poor severe Covid-19 infected patients who are being treated at the Ho Chi Minh City-based Military Hospital 175.
Thu Duc City and other districts in Ho Chi Minh City until now have run mobile vaccination campaigns for the hard-to-reach and high-risk communities citywide. This is expected to speed up the process for the goal of herd immunity here.
According to the Ho Chi Minh Center for Disease Control, up to 11 a.m. on August 16, the whole city recorded 5,283 locked-down points related to Covid-19 cases.
Localities in Hanoi have been directed to build plans for upcoming large-scale vaccination campaigns so that they can take place on schedule in a safe and effective manner.
Hit by the fourth wave of the Covid-19 epidemic in Vietnam from April 27 to now, Ho Chi Minh City has recorded more than 259,000 cases of Covid-19. Although the city is on the right track in disease control, in the coming time, the city can consider living with the epidemic along with carrying out the dual goal of epidemic prevention and economic development.
Since HCMC started the first vaccination campaign on June 19 till August 18, 5,064,448 people have been vaccinated against Covid-19 and all are safe, reported the HCMC Department of Health this morning.
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.
According to the latest update from the Department of Health of HCMC, from March 8 to 12 pm on August 9, the city received 4,111,040 doses of vaccines and administered 3,430,990 vaccine shots. The city needs at least 5.5 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine in August to reach its vaccination coverage goal.
Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long yesterday urged provinces and cities under the Central to speed up vaccination against Covid-19, facilitate and ensure safe injection for all people aged from 18 years old and above, the elderly and frontline medical staff and give vaccination priority to people in worst-hit areas to soon repel the fourth wave of Covid-19 outbreak and create more and more green zones.
Although the Covid-19 pandemic has gravely wounded the economy with serious consequences impacting all communities and individuals in HCMC, the country's leading commercial center still has the determination to keep its goals of socio-economic development.
In his dispatch to heads of people’s committees and departments of health in cities and provinces, Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long directed to strictly handle vaccination.
