HANOI, Mar 8 (NNN-VNA) – Vietnam’s Ministry of Health, today, started a COVID-19 vaccine inoculation campaign, the country’s largest vaccination campaign in history, with over 100 million injections expected to be conducted nationwide.
The first doses of AstraZeneca’s vaccine were given at 8:00 a.m. local time today, to health workers, directly treating COVID-19 patients in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, the southern Ho Chi Minh City, and the northern COVID-19 epicentre, Hai Duong province.
The Ministry of Health said, vaccination is an important, effective, proactive and indispensable measure in the process of COVID-19 pandemic prevention, and a top priority for the government to help bring lives back to normal.
In the coming days, vaccination will start in other cities and provinces that have been hit by the latest wave of COVID-19 infections, targeting people working on the frontline against the pandemic, such as health workers, personnel at quarantine facilities, as well as, contact-tracing teams, police and national defence forces in the localities.
Vietnam received the first batch of 117,600 doses of COVID-19 vaccine from the British company, AstraZeneca on Feb 24.
As of this morning, the country recorded 2,512 cases of COVID-19 infection, according to its Ministry of Health.– NNN-VNA
