Covid 19 vaccine

Ho Chi Minh City to kick off largest-ever COVID-19 vaccination drive on weekend

June 18, 2021 by tuoitrenews.vn

A mass coronavirus inoculation drive with over 800,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses will be carried out in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday at around 1,000 vaccination points, a high-ranking health official has said.

Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son made the statement on Thursday when he joined the municipal Pasteur Institute to inspect the storage of 836,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine jabs having been allocated by the central government to the city.

These doses, developed by British-Swedish firm AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, are among nearly one million shots of the vaccine the Japanese government donated to Vietnam on Wednesday.

This allocation reflected a priority the government and the National Vaccine Steering Board has given to the nine-million-strong city to help it expand the immunization coverage and thereby drive back the increasing COVID-19 spread, which has so far affected the entire southern city, Deputy Minister Son said.

The vaccine doses underwent required tests lasting for 48 hours at the Vaccine Testing Institute for safety certification before use, the deputy minister said.

This supplied photo shows the AstraZeneca vaccine shipment upon its arrival in the Noi Bai Airport in Hanoi on late June 16, 2021.

This supplied photo shows the AstraZeneca vaccine shipment upon its arrival at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on June 16, 2021.

The vaccination drive is expected to start on Saturday at 1,000 points of inoculation citywide and will last for five or seven days, making it the largest-ever mass COVID-19 immunization in the city.

The inoculation will be intended for priority subjects designated by the government and others including essential service providers, teachers, health workers, people working at administrative agencies, people over 65 years old, and workers at industrial parks and export processing zones.

Each point will vaccinate 200 people per day, which means a total of 200,000 people can receive injections per day.

City authorities have drawn up a plan to mobilize all possible health workers and facilities for the mass inoculation, the deputy minister said, adding that lists of vaccination must be made available within Friday.

“It is a principle that this mass immunization is conducted quickly but must ensure absolute safety for vaccinated people,” Son requested.

Ho Chi Minh City health authorities recently reported that around 11,000 locals have been vaccinated since June 3, bringing the total number of inoculated people to about 84,000 since the city began its immunization program on March 8.

Nationwide, nearly two million vaccine shots had been administered and 90,000 people had received the full two doses by Thursday, according to the health ministry’s data.

The ministry confirmed 121 new coronavirus cases at noon on Friday, including 119 domestic and two imported cases, of which 59 were detected Ho Chi Minh City.

The new cases have taken the Southeast Asian country’s tally of patients to 12,352, including 62 deaths, since early 2020.

Since April 27, when the pandemic’s fourth wave appeared in Vietnam, the country has documented 9,114 domestic infections.

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OVs contribute VND 6.2 billion to national COVID-19 vaccine fund

June 18, 2021 by en.qdnd.vn

According to minister Son, the Vietnamese community abroad has always thought of and supported their compatriots at home in the fight against COVID-19.

When the Prime Minister decided to establish the national COVID-19 vaccine fund and in response to the call from the State President, the Prime Minister, the VFFCC, and the Foreign Ministry since the fourth wave of COVID-19 outbreaks in Vietnam, overseas Vietnamese from all over the world have raised funds for the COVID-19 combat in their home country while surmounting difficulties, preventing COVID-19 and implementing civic obligations in their host country.

Apart from the aforementioned money, overseas Vietnamese and nearly 30 organizations and groups in the US, Canada, France and more have launched campaigns such as “Joining hands for Vietnam” and “10,000 vaccine doses for Vietnam”. The proceeds raised during the campaigns will be transferred to the home country to support front-line forces in the COVID-19 fight.

As of June 16, Vietnamese OVs have donated about 5.3 billion VND to the national COVID-19 prevention and control efforts and vaccine fund.

In his speech, VFFCC Chairman Do Van Chien thanked the Foreign Ministry for handing over the donations. He highly valued and thanked Vietnamese expats for their material and spiritual support for their compatriots at home.

Translated by Mai Huong

Vietnam confirms 62 more Covid-19 patients, Firday tally rises to 264

June 18, 2021 by dtinews.vn

An additional 62 more Covid-19 infections has been recorded in Vietnam as of Friday evening, raising the daily counts to 264 and the total number of patients in the country to 12,414, the Ministry of Health has reported.

According to the ministry’s report, 59 of the newly-confirmed patients are locally-transmitted cases most of whom were detected in quarantine sites or areas under lockdown in some localities including 19 in Bac Giang, 30 in Ho Chi Minh City, six in Bac Ninh, three in Ha Tinh, and one in Hoa Binh.

The 19 cases in Bac Giang were recorded at some local industrial parks which have reported a large outbreak over the last few weeks.

As of Friday evening, 9,172 locally-transmitted cases have been reported since the new outbreak occurred in the country on April 27, including 5,083 in the virus epicentre of Bac Giang. The outbreak has so far spread to 40 cities and provinces nationwide.

Three imported patients are all Vietnamese people who recently returned from Cambodia and Japan. They were sent to quarantine areas in Tay Ninh and Quang Nam provinces upon arrival and are now being treated at local hospitals.

With these new infection cases, the number of Covid-19 patients in Vietnam has increased to 12,414 including 10,742 locally-transmitted cases.

As of 6 pm on June 18, a total of 4,733 Covid-19 patients had recovered and been discharged from hospital.

So far there have been 62 deaths, most of them being the elderly with serious underlying diseases.

At present, over 170,000 people who had close contact with Covid-19 patients or returned from virus-hit areas are being monitored at hospitals, quarantine facilities, and at home.

On June 17, an additional 200,263 people were given Covid-19 vaccine in Vietnam, raising the total number of vaccine doses used in the country to 1,991,059. The number of people who have received two doses has risen to 89,833.

121 new cases of COVID-19 added to national tally

June 18, 2021 by en.vietnamplus.vn

Samples are under the COVID-19 screening process. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam confirmed 121 new cases of COVID-19, including two imported ones, in the past six hours to 12 pm on June 18, according to the Health Ministry .

Among the 119 domestic infections, 59 were found in Ho Chi Minh City, 36 in Bac Giang, 12 in Binh Duong, ten in Bac Ninh, one in Hoa Binh, and one in Lao Cai. Of them, 110 were detected in quarantine or blocked areas.

So far, the country documented 10,755 domestic and 1,669 imported infections. The number of cases since the fourth wave of the pandemic began on April 27 was 9,185.

The ministry said as many as 4,653 patients have been given the all-clear so far, while the death toll remained at 61.

Among active patients under treatment at hospitals, 407 have tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 once, 114 twice and 65 thrice.

Twenty-five provinces have gone through 14 days without detecting new cases. Since April 29, over 5.14 million people across the country have received COVID-19 testing.

More than 1.99 million vaccine doses have been injected to date, with 89,833 people fully vaccinated with two shots./.

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Safety goes first in vaccination: Health Minister

June 18, 2021 by en.vietnamplus.vn

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Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Health always takes safety first when it comes to vaccination against not only COVID-19 but also other diseases, Minister Nguyen Thanh Long told the press on June 17. nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive , the biggest in the nation’s history, Long said it will be conducted in all localities with the deployment of mobile vaccination stations and application of information technology, and see the participation of all ministries and sectors.

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Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long (Photo: VNA)

He said the ministry has made a report to the Politburo and Government on the procurement of 150 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines and on the conduction of the upcoming large-scale vaccination.

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Nearly 1.7 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine arrive in Vietnam

May 16, 2021 by en.vietnamplus.vn

The vaccine will be preserved at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology for examination before distribution to localities for the third phase of vaccination. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam received the second shipment of 1.682 million AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses through COVAX Facility – the global vaccine access mechanism on May 16 afternoon, according to the Ministry of Health.

The batch will be preserved at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology for examination before distribution to localities for the third phase of vaccination .

The first batch of COVID-19 vaccines arrived the country on April 1.

Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said that the ministry has spared no efforts to seek vaccine sources for the nation, and around 110 million doses will be supplied for Vietnam this year, 38.9 million doses of which are from COVAX Facility, 30 million from AstraZeneca, and 31 million from Pfizer/BioNTech.

Furthermore, the ministry has registered to buy additional 10 million doses through COVAX under the cost share mechanism.

Negotiations are underway to purchase more vaccines from Moderna, Johnson&Johnson, CureVac, Spunik V and Sinopharm, helping diversify vaccine source to serve the locals, he added.

Currently, four Vietnamese vaccines are under development, produced by Nagogen Pharmaceutical Biotechnology JSC, the Institute of Vaccines and Medical Biologicals (IVAC), Vaccine and Biological Production Company No. 1 (Vabiotech) and the Center for Research and Production of Vaccines and Biologicals (Polyvac).

Vietnam begun its inoculation campaign on March 8. As of May 15, as many as 977,032 frontline medical workers and members of the community-based anti-COVID-19 groups received COVID-19 vaccine shots./.

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