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Hanoi has set a goal to finish the second Covid-19 vaccine shot for people aged from 18 in November. By September 19, Hanoi administered a total of 5.38 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine. The Covid-19 testing in Hanoi The National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology has decided to allocate eight doses of Covid-19 vaccine for 25 localities, including 1.4 million doses for Hanoi. According to the vice chairman of the municipal people’s committee, the city will try to cover the second jab of Covid-19 vaccine for all people aged from 18 in November. Hanoi has tested Covid-19 for four million people. The city’s local Covid-19 infection rate has sharply fallen. Since April 29 when the fourth Covid-19 wave started hitting Vietnam, Hanoi has detected 3,922 Covid-19 cases, including 1,597 locally-infected cases. …

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Japan has decided to provide more doses of COVID-19 vaccine for several neighbors in Asia, including 400,000 jabs for Vietnam. Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs Toshimitsu Motegi announced on Tuesday that his country would donate an additional 1.3 million AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses to some countries and territories in Asia. The donation includes 500,000 doses for Taiwan, 400,000 shots for Vietnam, 300,000 jabs for Thailand, and 100,000 doses for Brunei. The vaccines will be delivered as soon as possible, the official stated. To date, Japan has supplied more than 23 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine produced in the nation to countries and territories in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Pacific region, he said. Japan has also pledged US$1 billion and 30 million doses to the COVAX Facility, a global vaccine-sharing scheme. The latest announcement has brought Japan’s total vaccine donations to Vietnam up to 3.58 million shots, according to the Embassy of …

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South Korean President Moon Jae-in has announced that his country will provide Vietnam with at least one million doses of COVID-19 vaccine next month. The donation was announced during President Moon’s meeting with Vietnamese State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on the sidelines of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, according to spokesperson Park Kyung-mee. The vaccine jabs are expected to be delivered in October. This will be South Korea’s first direct vaccine donation to another country aside from its financial support for the COVAX Facility, a global initiative working to guarantee fair and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for every country in the world. During their conversation, the two leaders agreed that South Korea and Vietnam are close partners with deepened cooperation in various fields, including politics, economic matters, and diplomacy. Both sides consented on making efforts to further enhance bilateral relations on the occasion …

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A teacher from the north-central Vietnamese province of Quang Binh has been found deliberately receiving two doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine within only 10 minutes. The incident occurred at a vaccination site at a general hospital in Le Thuy District on Saturday, Ngo Duc Van – director of the infirmary – confirmed on Sunday morning. N.T.L., a teacher at Truong Thuy Elementary and Middle School, received the two vaccine shots on purpose, Van added. After getting her first dose, L. folded her vaccination paper to cover the confirmation stamp and headed back to the waiting line. At the vaccination desk, the health worker looked at the folded piece of paper and was not aware that L. had already jabbed. The health worker then injected L. with another dose and only realized it when she was about to add the confirmation stamp to L.’s vaccination paper. The interval between the two shots was only 10 minutes, while the recommended pause for the AstraZeneca COVID-19 …

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People in Hà Nôi's Nam Từ Liêm Districts receive COVID-19 vaccine doses. VNA/VNS Photo Hoàng Hiếu HÀ NỘI – Việt Nam has surpassed the milestone of injecting more than 30 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines nationwide after five consecutive days administering a million jabs a day. According to data from the National Immunisation Portal, by the morning of September 14, the country had injected 30.4 million people. Ten provinces with the highest vaccination rates are Quảng Ninh, Đồng Tháp, Bình Phước, Vĩnh Long, Cà Mau, Kon Tum, Bến Tre, Bạc Liêu, Sóc Trăng and Lâm Đồng. Hà Nội has so far used 80.6 per cent of the 5.3 million doses provided by the Ministry of Health. Hà Nội’s Health Department, on September 14, was further provided with 418,000 doses of China’s Vero Cell vaccine. The vaccines were given to 13 districts in Long Biên, Đống Đa, Bắc Từ Liêm, Nam Từ Liêm, Sóc Sơn, Quốc Oai, Thường Tín, Phú Xuyên, Thanh Oai, Ứng Hòa, Sơn Tây, Đan Phượng and Phúc Thọ. …

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Authorities in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho are verifying reports that 57 children have been given COVID-19 vaccine shots in the locality. The medical center in Can Tho’s Thot Not District organized inoculation at a middle school on August 18, according to documents collected by Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper. A total of 362 people were vaccinated with their first Pfizer-BioNTech shot at the site on this day. Among them, 57 are under 18 years old, and the youngest is 12 years old. During the inoculation on September 4, many of these young individuals were also provided with their second Pfizer-BioNTech jab. Le Thi Thuy Hang, chairwoman of the Thot Not People’s Committee, stated that local officials are verifying this information and will announce the result in the coming days. On Monday, a Facebook user posted a status saying that a health worker and her family members, including a 13-year-old niece, had been fully inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in …

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The director of a district-level medical center in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta has been suspended for allowing a 13-year-old child to receive COVID-19 vaccination. The People’s Committee in Can Tho City has decided to suspend Nguyen Kim Hai, director of the Thot Not District Medical Center, for 15 days over the administering of a COVID-19 vaccine shot to an under-18-year-old person without consulting the local steering committee for COVID-19 prevention and control. During the suspension, competent authorities will review the extent of the violation and determine a suitable disciplinary action for the health official. On Monday, a Facebook user posted a status saying that a health worker and her family members, including a 13-year-old niece, had been fully inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Thot Not District. The post stirred up public concern as authorities in Can Tho and Vietnam in general have yet to issue any guideline on COVID-19 vaccination for people …

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COVID-19 vaccination in Thai Binh (Source: thaibinhtv.vn) Thai Binh (VNA) – The northern province of Thai Binh is focusing its efforts on implementing a COVID-19 vaccination campaign as part of the biggest-ever national vaccination campaign that was launched in July. Vaccination, along with strict adherence to the “ 5K message ” given by the Ministry of Health, which are khau trang (facemask), khu khuan (disinfection), khoang cach (distance), khong tu tap (no gathering) and khai bao y te (health declaration), is defined as the solution that Vietnam is applying to reign in the pandemic. Pham Nam Thai, Vice Director of the provincial Health Department said that Thai Binh is conducting the first phase of the vaccination campaign, which concentrates on injecting COVID-19 vaccines to prioritised groups, including forces working at the frontline in the pandemic fight. In this first phase, the locality has set up more than 70 vaccination stations in hospitals, …

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Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long and municipal officials visit a vaccination site in Hanoi (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long on September 10 inspected COVID-19 vaccination in Hanoi’s Ba Dinh and Long Bien districts, during which he stressed the need to ensure progress and safety of the inoculation at the same time. Minister Long reminded medical staff to strictly follow safety regulations during vaccination to ensure safety for themselves, volunteers and people receiving vaccine injection. Director of the Hanoi Department of Health Tran Thi Nhi Ha said that Hanoi has conducted the flexible distribution of vaccines to districts to ensure vaccination progress. The Minister lauded Hanoi’s efforts to raise vaccination capacity to over 300,000 shots per day, the highest ever. The city is on the right track to the goal of giving COVID-19 vaccine shots to all local residents aging from 18 years old by September 15, he said. So far, Hanoi …

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Pham Duc Hai at the press brief (Photo: SGGP) He made the statement at the Steering Committee’s press brief yesterday afternoon to provide information on the battle against Covid-19. Speaking at the press brief, Mr. Hai said that till September 16, the southern metropolis has had 315,623 Covid-19 infection cases confirmed by the Ministry of Health. Presently, approximately 41,297 Covid-19 patients are being treated in hospitals. Some 2,507 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospitals on September 15. Accordingly, the city has recorded around 161,007 recoveries and 12,768 deaths from the beginning of the year. Regarding vaccination, the city has administered 8,452,609 Covid-19 vaccine shots on September 15. Some 6,667,018 people received the first dose of the vaccine while 1,785,591 received the second shots. Additionally, the social welfare center has given approximately 1,791,160 support packages to poor and near-poor households from August 15 to September 16. The …

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