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Vietnam is expected to receive over 100,000 doses of rotavirus vaccine next year for pilot use before making them available in its expanded programme on immunisation (EPI) that offers free vaccination to under-1 children.
For children in fragile and conflict-prone settings who have been out of reach of the government’s immunisation programmes, there is hope.
The Ministry of Health has ordered health departments to strengthen the management and reporting of new COVID-19 cases.
Vietnam logged an additional 2,814 COVID-19 cases on August 17, raising the country’s total caseload to 11,373,276, according to the Ministry of Health.
Vietnam will use four more vaccines in the Expanded Immunisation Programme for the 2021-2030 period under Resolution No.104 of the Government on the roadmap to increase the diversity of vaccines in the programme signed by Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on August 15.