How COVID-19 vaccines will be distributed

Under the Resolution, the Government assigned the Ministry of Health to take prime responsibility and coordinate with relevant ministries, agencies and localities in purchasing, receiving donated vaccines and using the vaccines.

The total amount of vaccine doses is around 150 million.

The Resolution specifies priority groups and areas subject to free vaccination as follows:

For priority groups:

Front liners: Healthcare workers, those who join COVID-19 prevention and control work (members of steering committees for COVID-19 prevention and control at all levels, staff at designated quarantine sites, those who carry out contract tracing and epidemiological investigations, volunteers, reporters among others), military and public security forces

Vietnamese diplomats, customs and immigration officers

  Essential service workers in such sectors like aviation, transport, tourism, electricity and water supply, etc

Teachers and those who work at education and training facilities, those who work at State agencies and have regular contact with various people

People with chronic illnesses, people aged above 65

Residents in pandemic-hit areas

Poor people, policy beneficiaries

Those who will be sent abroad for learning and working

Other people decided by the Ministry of Health depending on COVID-19 situation

For priority areas

Priority will be given to the pandemic-hit provinces and cities.

In a locality, those in the pandemic-hit areas will be vaccinated first.

So far, Viet Nam has confirmed 2,421 COVID-19 infection cases, including 827 local cases since January 27, 2021 when the third wave of local transmissions emerged./.

By Ngoc Van