The Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) announced four people who were suffering Anaphylaxis, an acute and potentially life-threatening allergic reaction, following Covid-19 vaccination are in stable condition.
People from foreign countries carrying a Covid-19 vaccination certificate, informally known as a vaccine passport, are still quarantined upon entry into Vietnam and undergo tests like others.
An incorporated ministries committee has proposed the Prime Minister to approve the handover of 30 million Covid-19 vaccine doses from the Vietnam Vaccine Joint Stock Company (VNVC) to the Ministry of Health on a non-profit basis.
Vietnam will receive 5,657,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine in March and April, all made by AstraZeneca, according to the National Expanded Immunisation Program.
The Department of Health of HCMC has proposed the municipal People’s Committee to approve a program mobilizing resources and funds for the purchase of five million Covid-19 vaccine doses.
The Department of Health of HCMC has proposed the municipal People’s Committee to approve a program mobilizing resources and funds for the purchase of five million Covid-19 vaccine doses.
Some 377 health workers who got the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine yesterday are in stable condition now.
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.
Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City have locked down a hotel in District 1 where 35 Chinese, reportedly to be border jumpers, stayed in the context of Vietnam having battled a new wave of Covid-19 infections.
More than 900 healthcare workers of the HCMC Hospital for Tropical Diseases will get the AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 jab on March 8.
Vaccination using the recently imported AstraZeneca vaccine is expected to start on March 8, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long informed a meeting of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control on March 5.
The Ho Chi Minh City Red Cross Society yesterday organized a meeting to call for voluntary blood donation with the aim to collect 220,000 blood bags for treatment in 2021.