As many as 894 soldiers and medical workers who work along the borderline in southwestern Tay Ninh province received the first doses of COVID-19 vaccine on April 1.
Two more people in Ho Chi Minh City and the southern province of Tay Ninh have reportedly died from the swine flu virus A/H1N1, whose return last June has raised great public concern.
The international medical quarantine centre of Tay Ninh province has urgently deployed medical quarantine work at the Moc Bai and Xa Mat border gates to prevent Zika virus from entering Vietnam.