Minister promises greatest efforts to ensure safety in COVID-19 vaccinations
The Ministry of Health will mobilise all resources to carry out COVID-19 vaccinations, the largest-ever vaccination programme, so as to ensure absolute safety for people, Minister Nguyen Thanh Long has said.
Hanoi (VNA) - The Ministry of Health will mobilise all resources tocarry out COVID-19 vaccinations, the largest-ever vaccination programme, so asto ensure absolute safety for people, Minister Nguyen Thanh Long has said.
Long chaired a teleconference which was organised on March 6and connected with 700 places across Vietnam to launch the vaccination plan and providerelated training for medical workers nationwide in the use and storage of thevaccine, as well as the treatment of post-injection complications.
He informed the teleconference that the vaccination programme willstart on March 8, although the first batch of vaccine arrived in Vietnam on February24.
“As the vaccine is new, we need to carry out thoroughly,”Long said, adding that Vietnam has to obtain an accreditation certificatefrom the producer and reassess the safety index of the batch of vaccine.
Because of the limited number of vaccine, the ministrycannot allocate for all 63 provinces and cities, but for 13 pandemic-hitlocalities, with priority given to Hai Duong province – Vietnam’s largestoutbreak at present, he added.
The minister asked localities which have yet to receive the vaccine to prepare and maketraining programmes as the ministry will allocate vaccines to them when more aretransported to Vietnam in March.
COVAC and AstraZeneca have agreed to provide 30 milliondoses each for Vietnam this year, the minister said, adding the ministry askedthe producers to hand over the vaccines to Vietnam before September and isnegotiating with Pfizer to buy an additional 30 million doses from this producer.
The ministry has assigned three deputy ministers to beresponsible for directing the vaccinations as this kind of vaccine is injectedfor the first time and injected for adults.
Vietnam will conduct screening check-ups before infectionsto ensure safety, although the process takes more time. The first injections,he went on, will be given to people working on the front line of the fight againstCOVID-19, including health, army, police, customs and immigration personnel.
People getting the shots will be monitored via digitalhealth records and receive e-certificates for their completion of inoculation./.
A total of 367 volunteers, including 30 aged over 60, have been injected with Nano Covax, Vietnam’s first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine candidate, in the second phase of its human trials, according to the Military Medical University.
Vaccination using the recently imported AstraZeneca vaccine is expected to start on March 8, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long informed a meeting of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control on March 5.
Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long has said that Vietnam will focus on the research and production of homegrown COVID-19 vaccines alongside imports, viewing this as a long-term strategy.
The Ministry of Health must ensure the safety and efficiency of Vietnam’s COVID-19 vaccination programme, under the instructions of the Politburo and the Government, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said at a meeting of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control on March 5.
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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.
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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.
Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long (Photo: VNA) 
