Nearly 1,000 People Vaccinated Against COVID-19
VGP – As many as 955 frontline workers have been vaccinated against COVID-19 since March 8 when Viet Nam first started administering 117,600 doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine to its people.
The figure includes 474 in Ho Chi Minh City, 127 in Ha Noi, and the rest in Hai Duong - the current biggest COVID-19 hotspot in Viet Nam.
The vaccinated frontliners are medical workers, tracking and quarantine staff, who have reported no serious side-effects, including pain at the injection site, headache, nausea, chills, fever, and anaphylactic reaction or allergy.
The Ministry of Health are negotiating with other foreign vaccine manufacturers namely Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson and Gamaleya to ensure COVID-19 vaccination supply as soon as possible.
As reported earlier, Viet Nam will receive 5.657 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of April.
So far, the country documented 1,588 domestically-transmitted infections, including 895 cases since the third wave of local transmission on January 27. The Treatment Sub-committee said that 2,004 patients have been declared clear of the coronavirus so far.
The capital city of Ha Noi has gone 23 days without new local transmission, while the latest cases in Hoa Binh, Dien Bien, Ha Giang, Binh Duong, Hung Yen, Bac Giang, Gia Lai, Bac Ninh, Quang Ninh and Ho Chi Minh City were 26 days ago./.
By Kim Anh
