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 is scheduled to host the 13th ASEAN School Games in August 2023, according to a decision signed by Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on December 28.
In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic re-outbreak in some countries, the Ministry of Health (MoH) required the localities and relevant units to promptly review the Covid-19 vaccination campaign in the last six months of 2022, build the vaccination plan for 2023 and vaccination campaign for children from six months to under five years old.
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.
Vietnam recorded an additional 5,376 Covid-19 infections, including 5,367 domestic and nine imported cases, in the past 24 hours to 5pm on October 3, the Ministry of Health announced.
Vietnam documented an additional 4,802 new Covid-19 infections, including ten imported, from 6:30pm on August 10 to 6am on August 11, raising the national count to 232,937, according to the Ministry of Health.
Vietnam detected 4,009 new Covid-19 cases over the last 12 hours to 6pm on August 6, putting the national tally at 189,066, according to the Ministry of Health.
