Vietnam launches its COVID-19 inoculation drive on March 8 morning, administering the AstraZeneca vaccine to medical workers in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and northern Hai Duong province – the country’s biggest pandemic hotspot at present.
Vietnam launches its COVID-19 inoculation drive on March 8 morning. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam launches its COVID-19inoculation drive on March 8 morning, administering the AstraZeneca vaccine to medicalworkers in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and northern Hai Duong province – thecountry’s biggest pandemic hotspot at present.
The vaccination is conducted at the Central Hospitalfor Tropical Diseases in Hanoi, the HCM City Hospital for Tropical Diseases andtwo medical centres in Hai Duong.
As many as 100 staff members of the Central Hospitalfor Tropical Diseases are expected to receive the shots in the morning of March8. The hospital is allocated 450 doses among the first batch of 117,600 dosesof AstraZeneca vaccine the country has received.
In Hai Duong, 50 medical workers at Hai Duong city’smedical centre, and 30 others at Kim Thanh district’s medical centre will bethe first in the province to be injected.
The Ministry of Health has allocated the vaccine to 13localities, along with the Ministry of National Defence, the Ministry of PublicSecurity and 21 hospitals during the first phase.
Among the localities, all having reported COVID-19cases since the latest wave of outbreaks since January 27, the Hanoi Centre forDisease Control (CDC) is given 8,000 doses, Hai Duong CDC 32,000, and HCM CityCDC 8,000.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of National Defence and theMinistry of Public Security each receive 30,000 doses.
At a meeting on March 6, Health Minister NguyenThanh Long stressed the need to ensure equality in vaccine access as suggestedby the WHO, UNICEF and COVAC.
The localities excluded in the first phase shouldcontinue to prepare for the inoculation, with training programmes, he said,adding that they would receive the vaccine after the next shipment arrives inVietnam in March.
The ministry will roll out the vaccination in allCOVID-19 treatment hospitals, prioritising those involved in frontline work,and those who participate in the pandemic combat in the community like contacttracers.
People getting the shots will be monitored viadigital health records and receive e-certificates for their completion ofinoculation.
Vietnam plans to import about 150 million doses ofCOVID-19 vaccines./.
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.
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.
Vietnam reported no COVID-19 cases in the past 12 hours to 6:00 am on March 8, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
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Vietnam launches its COVID-19 inoculation drive on March 8 morning. (Photo: VNA) 
