The city ran out of the DPT vaccine in May this year; the hepatitis B, measles, and polio jabs in early September; and the measles-rubella as well as 5-in-1 shots early this month
The Department of Health of Ho Chi Minh City, the most populous locality in Vietnam, said on April 23 it has detected seven new sub-variants of SARS-CoV-2 mutated Omicron through genome sequencing.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has urged the Ministry of Health and relevant ministries and agencies as well as the People’s Committees of cities and provinces nationwide to strictly implement his dispatch issued on July 25 regarding the speeding up of COVID-19 vaccination, the Government Office said in a statement.
Vietnam currently lacks sufficient testing capabilities to detect monkeypox as the WHO declared the disease a global health emergency on Saturday. - VnExpress International