Update: March, 09/2021 - 15:20 | A health worker is injected with COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday morning in the Central Highland province of Gia Lai. VNA/VNS Photo GIA LAI The COVID-19 vaccination drive reached the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai on Tuesday, making it the fourth locality in Việt Nam to vaccinate people on the front lines of fighting the pandemic after Hà Nội, HCM City and Hải Dương Province. Sixty-one medical workers and staff at Gia Lai Province’s Field Hospital and 39 others in the province’s General Hospital are expected to get vaccinated on Tuesday and Wednesday.
One hundred doctors and nurses at the HCM City Hospital for Tropical Diseases get COVID-19 vaccines on Monday. VNA/VNS Photo Đinh Hằng HCM CITY Some 250 medical workers at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in HCM City and National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hà Nội and in Hải Dương Province on Monday became the first in Việt Nam to be vaccinated against COVID-19. They are among frontline workers in 13 provinces and cities who will get the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine starting today
, as the country launches the largest vaccination drive in its history to inoculate 70 per cent of the country s 100 million population to achieve herd immunity.
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08/03/2021 11:17 GMT+7
Vietnam begins COVID-19 vaccination on March 8
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.
The vaccination is conducted at the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi, the HCM City Hospital for Tropical Diseases and two medical centres in Hai Duong.
As many as 100 staff members of the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases are expected to receive the shots in the morning of March 8. The hospital is allocated 450 doses among the first batch of 117,600 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine the country has received.
Covid-19 vaccination begins for frontline workers
By Thu Anh, Chi Le March 8, 2021 | 09:46 am GMT+7
Nguyen Thi Hue, a medical worker in Hai Duong Province, is injected with AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, March 8, 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Gia Chinh.
Medical and other frontline workers in Hanoi, HCMC and Hai Duong got the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine on Monday morning.
At 6:15 a.m. the Vietnam Vaccine JSC sent the vaccines to the HCMC Hospital for Tropical Diseases where 900 medical workers are to be given shots.
At the same time in Hanoi, specialized vehicles transported the vaccines to the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases.
Dr Vu Minh Dien, deputy director of the hospital’s center for pandemic prevention and vaccination, said 420 medical personnel would be immunized in the first phase.
Monday, March 08, 2021, 15:00 GMT+7
A health worker receives a COVID-19 vaccine shot at the Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases, March 8, 2021. Photo: Duyen Phan / Tuoi Tre
Vietnam started providing COVID-19 vaccinations to health workers in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and northern Hai Duong Province on Monday morning.
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decision signed by Deputy Minister of Health Truong Quoc Cuong on Saturday showed that the 117,600 COVID-19 vaccine doses that Vietnam currently has would be distributed to 13 provinces and cities, 21 hospitals and medical centers, as well as the Ministry of Public Security and Ministry of National Defense.
The process began on Monday morning at four locations in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and Hai Duong Province.