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A medical worker prepares a shot of AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases – Dong Anh District Branch in Hanoi, March 8, 2021. Photo: Nam Tran / Tuoi Tre
Five people who were among the first in Vietnam to be injected with a COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca/Oxford have experienced side effects, according to the Ministry of Health.
Since the launch of the COVID-19 vaccination
on Monday, a total of 522 medical workers, who are directly treating COVID-19 patients, conducting sampling and testing, and performing contact-tracing tasks, have received the shots, according to the Expanded Program on Immunization.
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09/03/2021 11:32 GMT+7
Some 377 health workers who got the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine yesterday are in stable condition now.
A medical worker of Hospital for Tropical Diseases in HCMC gets the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. (Photo: SGGP)
These health staffs working in the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi, the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City, the medical clinic in Hai Duong Town and in Kim Thanh District of the Northern Province of Hai Duong were inoculated against Covid-19 first when the country started mass vaccination with AstraZeneca shots to achieve herd immunity.
For Covid-19 frontline workers, vaccine couldn’t have come sooner
By Thu Anh, Chi Le March 9, 2021 | 11:32 am GMT+7
A nurse is about to be injected a Covid-19 vaccine shot produced by AstraZeneca at the HCMC Hospital for Tropical Diseases, March 8, 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Thu Anh.
Dr Du Le Thanh Xuan of the HCMC Hospital for Tropical Diseases intensive care unit became the first person to be vaccinated against Covid-19 at her hospital.
On Monday morning Xuan, who s still studying, took a day off from classes for her shot, and was accompanied by her husband, also a doctor at the same hospital.