Vaccination requirements vietnam

The Politburo has agreed that Phu Quoc resort island in Kien Giang Province will be Vietnam’s first locality to pilot the acceptane of international visitors’ vaccine passports in a number of tourist sites that can control the pandemic.

The meeting was chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, who is also head of the steering committee.

The standing board agreed on specific instructions to create favourable conditions for local authorities and businesses to access and purchase vaccines and quickly transport them to Vietnam.

The Health Ministry will work with authorized suppliers and Ho Chi Minh City’s administration on the city’s needs for vaccines.

Localities and businesses must be cautious when seeking vaccines to avoid the case when the manufacturer commits to selling them but deliver in 2022, not in this year.

The standing board urged the Health Ministry to early issue a document on extending the groups prioritized to receive vaccination, while preparing for launching the free-of-charge expanded vaccination drive and on-demand paid vaccination service after completing inoculation for priority groups.

Participants agreed to create the best possible conditions for the trial of homegrown vaccine. If the trial goes well, in the context of vaccine scarcity the Ministry of Health will submit to competent agencies for approval for use homegrown vaccines in emergency circumstances.

The Ministry of Health will coordinate with ministries and sectors to submit to the Government a proposal on accessing all vaccine supply sources in the world towards the goal of achieving herd immunity by the end of 2021, and create mechanisms to facilitate investors’ investment in the production of vaccines in the country to serve not only domestic use but also export.

The health ministry reported that in the coming time, along with Pfizer vaccine already bought, Vietnam is expected to receive a number of vaccines that have been approved for emergency circulation by the World Health Organisation.

Source: VNA

The patient was brought to Vietnam by a plane run by the UN Emergency Chartered Medical Evacuation Services (MEDEVAC).

After undergoing intensive treatment in a strict quarantine process, and thanks to expertise and dedicated care of Vietnamese doctors and nurses, the patient have fully recovered and been discharged from hospital. The UN staff member left Vietnam on June 15 to come back to work.

It was the first time Vietnam has received and treated a patient as a UN staff member under the MEDEVAC mechanism, marking a new development step in the Vietnam-UN comprehensive partnership. The deed once again affirmed Vietnam’s humane tradition, willingness and commitment to contribute to international cooperation in coping with the COVID-19 pandemic.

UN leaders and representatives at different levels appreciated and expressed their gratitude to Vietnam’s good will and spirit of international solidarity. They spoke highly of the Vietnamese health sector’s professional capacity and contributions to the care and protection of the people’s health as well as expanding international cooperation and improving the country’s position.

Especially, UN Under-Secretary General Atul Khare lauded the significance of the deed, saying it helped the UN fulfill its tasks in the region. He also expressed wish to receive more support from Vietnam in the near future.

On the occasion, he also thanked Vietnam for continuing to send medical workers to the level-2 field hospital in South Sudan and giving COVID-19 vaccine shots to them before departure.

MEDEVAC was set up with the aim of creating a global framework to provide emergency evacuation for severely ill UN staff members who require a level of care not available at their locations. Many countries in and outside the region engaged in the reception and treatment for them via the MEDEVAC mechanism.

The UN, through the COVAX Facility, had already sent nearly 2.5 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to Vietnam, out of a total of 38.9 million doses it committed to provide for the country free of charge.

Since its admission to the UN in 1977, Vietnam has received great support and assistance from UN organs to overcome war consequences, reconstruct the country and in the renewal process, especially improve production capacity, develop human resources, science-technology, integrate into the world and fulfill global development goals.

Together with offering medical supplies to countries worldwide in the past year, Vietnam has and will continue contributing to international solidarity to surmount the pandemic.

Source: VNA

In the current period, Vietnam’s Ministry of Health requires compulsory isolation of people coming into contact with Covid-19 carriers at concentrated facilities.

Compulsory traceability and centralized isolation for people who are exposed to coronavirus carriers (which are classified as F1) is crucial in combating the pandemic, Kinh Te & Do Thi reported, quoting Dr. Tran Nhu Duong, deputy director of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Health requires compulsory isolation for F1 people at concentrated establishments and under health workers’ supervision. Illustrative photo

F1 are those who who come into direct contact with Covid-19 patients or exposed to virus carriers within a range of 2 meters, regardless of how long the exposure. Therefore, F1 people are at a high risk of being infected with the Covid-19 and can be considered as potential patients.

As there have been no vaccines yet for Covid-19, it’s important to cut off the transmission routes. In order to do that, it is necessary to isolate the infection source so that it cannot spread the virus to the community, Dr. Duong, who also deputy head of the Task Force against Covid-19 in Danang city, the Covid-19 epicenter in Vietnam now.

The current strategy of Vietnam in the fight against Covid-19 in the community is detecting and isolating. There is no other way to detect it early than supervising and testing. And one of the key ways to detect F1 people is contact tracing.

“If F1 people are not detected and put under mass quarantine as soon as possible, they will be at a high risk of becoming Covid-19 patients and spreading the virus in the community,” Duong said.

He added that the first people at risk of being infected by F1 people are their own family members, then the community, and it will be hard to extinguish the outbreak.

Therefore, in the current period, the Ministry of Health requires compulsory isolation for F1 people at concentrated establishments and under health workers’ supervision.

The quarantine must comply with the guidance of the Ministry of Health to prevent infection in concentrated quarantine centers.

If F1 people strictly comply with these regulations, Covid-19 cross-infection in the quarantine centers is impossible, according to the expert.

At the time of writing, Vietnam has confirmed 983 coronavirus-infected cases, of which 467 are convalescents and 24 deaths.