The Hanoi Department of Health has ordered the city’s centre for disease control to provide training for local health centres and vaccination establishments to step up updating COVID-19 vaccination data for local residents.
An app showing the COVID-19 vaccination status (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The HanoiDepartment of Health has ordered the city’s centre for disease control to providetraining for local health centres and vaccination establishments to step up updatingCOVID-19 vaccination data for local residents.
As of the start of September, the localestablishments, excluding ministries and sectors’ hospitals based in Hanoi, hadverified more than 12 million vaccine doses (equivalent to 75.35%) while over4.2 million others (24.65%) had not.
The department said its subordinateunits have coordinated with public security divisions at different levels andrelated agencies to verify and update the data on the national populationdatabase and the national platform for COVID-19 vaccination management.
From now to the end of 2022, it willcontinue asking vaccination establishments to review existing data on the managementplatform and work with police to carry out verification, correction andsupplementation to ensure information accuracy on the national populationdatabase.
By the end of September 5, Vietnam had administered morethan 257 million COVID-19 vaccine doses. It is now one of thecountries with the largest vaccination coverage as almost 100% ofpeople aged 12 and above have received the first or second doses, and 56% ofthe population the third doses – doubling the global average, according to DeputyMinister of Health Nguyen Thi Lien Huong./.
More than 7,000 children aged between 5 and under 18 in Ho Chi Minh City were vaccinated against COVID-19 during the National Day holidays, according to the municipal Department of Health.
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The national COVID-19 caseload rose to 11,424,754 with 3,694 new cases recorded on September 6,the highest daily number in nearly four months, according to the Ministry of Health.
People’s consensus and support is the prerequisite for quickly expanding the vaccination coverage to effectively control the COVID-19 pandemic, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Lien Huong told the Government’s press briefing on September 6.
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The strategic product, managed and operated by the Vietnam News Agency Digital Media Centre (VNA Media), is an official channel for popularising the Party and State’s information and documents as well as delivering mainstream and trustworthy news to both domestic and international audiences through various kinds of multimedia formats.
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An app showing the COVID-19 vaccination status (Photo: VNA) 
