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Hanoi, April 18 (IANS) Vietnam has called for an intensified effort in Covid-19 vaccinations by provincial and municipal health sectors, local media reported

Hanoi, April 18: Vietnam has called for an intensified effort in Covid-19 vaccinations by provincial and municipal health sectors, local media reported on Tuesday.

With the number of COVID-19 cases locally witnessing a considerable increase in recent times, the Hanoi Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has sent 10 samples with positive rapid test results for SARS-CoV-2 virus to Bach Mai Hospital for gene sequencing.

The National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE) under the Ministry of Health recently sent a dispatch to the Departments of Health, Centres for Disease Control of provinces and cities on strengthening the implementation of vaccination and supplementation of AstraZeneca vaccine against the COVID-19 pandemic from April to June.

Vietnam documented as many as 1,031 new COVID-19 cases on April 17, a record in the past nearly six months, confirmed the Health Ministry.

Twenty-six leading experts in surgery from countries around the world such as the US, UK, Germany, Belgium, Japan and the Republic of Korea gathered at the 20th conference on science and technology being held in Ho Chi Minh City on April 14-15 by Binh Dan Hospital.

The number of new COVID-19 cases is on the rise again, with those infected with Omicron variant making up the majority, and mainly concentrating in the northern region - where the season is changing, Prof. Phan Trong Lan, Director of the Health Ministry's Department of Preventive Medicine reported at a press conference on April 13.

Vietnam logged 497 COVID-19 cases on April 13, representing a two-fold rise compared to the figure announced 24 hours earlier, the Ministry of Health said in its daily coronavirus update.

HCM City’s Health Department has proposed the Ministry of Health permit the citys Hospital for Tropical Diseases to culture the SARS-CoV-2 virus in its laboratory.

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