Almost 89,000 children from 5 to under-12 vaccinated against COVID-19 over one week
One week after the start of a campaign to vaccinate children from 5 to under-12 against COVID-19, a total 88,820 children in the age group had received the first shot as of April 20.
A child in Hanoi is vaccinated against COVID-19 (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi, (VNA) – One week after the start of a campaign to vaccinatechildren from 5 to under-12 againstCOVID-19, a total 88,820 children in the age group had received the first shot asof April 20.
The Health Ministry has allocated over 2.3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine forchildren to localities.
The northern province of Quang Ninh was the first locality inthe country to inoculate children in the age group on April 14.
In the capital city of Hanoi, a total 33,382 doses have beenadministered to children in the target age group since April 16, with no casesof serious reactions reported so far.
With more than 1 million children in the age group, Hanoi aims to have at least95 percent of them fully vaccinated.
Thesouthern hub of Ho Chi Minh City is carrying out the vaccination campaign for898,538 children from 5 to under-12 in the city from April 16 to 30.
In a recent online survey conducted by the Health Strategy and PolicyInstitute (HSPI) with the participation of 415,000 parents ofchildren from 5 to under-15, 60.6 percent of the parents supported thevaccination of children, 7.6 percent said they would let their children getvaccinated if it is a requirement. Meanwhile, 29.1 percent said they are stillconsidering the matter, and only 1.9 percent did not agree to let theirchildren get vaccinated.
According to the Department of Preventive Medicine under the Health Ministry,there are approximately 11.8 million children from 5 to under-12 years oldeligible for COVID-19 vaccination. Of them, about 8.2 million have not caughtCOVID-19. The health sector aims to provide full two shots to eligible childrenby the end of the second quarter./.
As of April 18, school attendance had reached 99.57 percent after all schools were reopened post-COVID-19, data from the Ministry of Education and Training shows.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked for stronger efforts to import COVID-19 vaccines to complete the target of giving second shots to children aged from 12-18 years old within April and children from 5 to under 12 years old within the second quarter of this year, enabling them to go to school safely.
The vaccination of children aged between five and under 12 years old have been carried out safely in many localities over the past few days and no incidents have been recorded so far.
Over 1 million Vietnamese people had received COVID-19 passport as of April 20 after six days the Ministry of Health (MoH) started to issue the certification through “So suc khoe dien tu” and “PC-COVID” apps.
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All eligible patients will receive surgical interventions and post-operative care in accordance with Vietnamese medical standards and global care protocols.
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This case marks the ninth fetal cardiac intervention conducted in HCM City, and it was considered the most technically demanding to date due to the fetus’s extremely early gestational age and the severity of the condition as diagnosed with aortic atresia.
The groundbreaking ceremony took place one day after the VNVC Vaccine JS Company and Sanofi Group exchanged cooperation documents on vaccine production technology transfer under the witness of State President Luong Cuong and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Vietnam’s traditional medicine took centre stage at the International Congress Biopharm Nonclinical Development, BioNCiD 2025, held on May 25-26 in the Cuban city of Varadero, amid growing global interest in sustainable healthcare solutions.
Under the agreement, VNVC and Sanofi will gradually implement technology transfers to enable domestic production of several key Sanofi vaccines that are widely used in Vietnam. In addition, Sanofi will support VNVC in training human resources and quality management in vaccine research and manufacturing.
Despite the ongoing global circulation and unpredictable developments of SARS-CoV-2, the World Health Organisation (WHO) hasn’t issued new warnings about COVID-19, said the Ministry of Health.
A child in Hanoi is vaccinated against COVID-19 (Photo: VNA) 
