Vaccines required for vietnam

Medical staff from a mobile health centre in Ward 25, Bình Thạnh District, HCM City give medicine to a COVID-19 patient self-quarantined at home. Patients who recover from the virus after receiving home treatment need to present a certificate from their local authorities to get a COVID-19 'green card.' — VNA/VNS Photo Đinh Hằng HCM CITY — HCM City’s Department of Health has proposed giving the COVID-19 ‘green card’ to people who have received at least one dose of vaccine. The plan was sent to the city’s Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control on Saturday after a meeting between its departments of health, information and communications, and planning and investment. A COVID-19 ‘green card’ is a certificate of vaccination, provided to people who have developed antibodies against COVID-19 due to being vaccinated, or having recovered from the virus and completed mandatory quarantine. The health department proposed giving this card to …

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"Everyone must have expected that Covid-19 would stabilize and social distancing would end on September 15th," Lee Hee Bok, deputy director of Korean-owned Daeyoung Electronics Vina, said. "But it is very unfortunate that this is not the case." The company in Thu Duc City has had hundreds of employees living on its premises since July 15, and they would be mentally and physically exhausted if they stay for two more weeks, he told VnExpress International. Daeyoung, which makes parts for electronics products like LCD screens and refrigerators, has seen production fall to 40 percent of pre-pandemic levels since only 30 percent of employees are working. "Customers are demanding more products, but we are unable to respond to their needs due to limitations in manpower and raw materials supply," Bok said. Similar difficulties are reported by some American companies. "The severe restrictions and lockdowns that Vietnam has imposed to curb the spread of the Delta variant has forced …

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David Tick has worked in various roles at the company As one of the youngest senior leaders at Sanofi, David Tick is leading the company’s business unit vaccine and playing an ever-important role. The vaccine business performed well in the first half of 2021 and greatly contributed to the company’s growth. Sanofi’s business momentum accelerated as a whole in the period, delivering strong financial results driven by its core growth drivers. “Indeed, the growth trajectory in 2019, 2020 and also beyond has been quite steep for the vaccines environment in Vietnam. Luckily, this comes automatically as a result of both a strong culture and a people-centric approach,” David told VIR. The entire team is strongly committed to its vision where “no-one suffers or dies from a vaccine-preventable disease”, David explained. “Hence playing to win, our cultural motto, is naturally reflected by our daily work to ensure the people of Vietnam obtain the vaccines they need. We can only achieve …

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According to the Vietnam Association of Beer, Wine and Beverage (VBA), more than 85 percent of drink manufacturers have had difficulties in product distribution. Their inventories are surging, the revenue is decreasing, and hundreds of thousand of workers have been affected. Drink consumption has dropped dramatically. The large distribution channel of drink manufacturers has shrunk by two thirds. The difficulty in goods circulation is one reason behind the supply chain disruption. Many enterprises have had to cut production capacity, the workforce, or stop production. The production cost associated with the ‘three on-site’ principle is increasing, as well as expenses on pandemic prevention, while enterprises cannot collect debts. Analysts say that increases in input material prices, inventories and debts are the "three increases" that have sunk businesses. Having been closed for a long time, restaurants, eateries and tourism sites have become exhausted. Lacking capital …

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Read what is in the news today: Society -- The Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control received 54,700 more doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine allocated by the Ministry of Health on Sunday morning. -- A man in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong has been fined VND7.5 million (US$328) for forging his COVID-19 test result from negative to positive by himself to avoid working. -- Mobile medical stations in Ho Chi Minh City have been overloaded as more than 82,000 app-based delivery workers have signed up for rapid COVID-19 tests to meet the requirements for their operations. -- Nearly 2,700 fishermen have been in dire need of food aid on fishing boats offshore southern Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province as the provincial authorities have banned all boats, including their supply boats, from leaving ports from August 25 for COVID-19 prevention. -- The People’s Committee of Ha Long City in northern Quang Ninh Province has allowed the reopening of beaches and some sports …

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The National Ethics Committee in Biomedical Research under the Ministry of Health on September 19 issued a press statement on its conclusions of a meeting one day earlier during which it looked into the mid-term phase 3 trial’s results of homegrown COVID-19 vaccine Nano Covax. Nano Covax vaccine. (Photo: VNA) The data available for review is from the developers – Nanogen Pharmaceutical Biotechnology JSC in Ho Chi Minh City with the support in administration and medical monitoring from the Military Medical University in Hanoi – up until September 2 this year, as the final phase of clinical trials is ongoing for the recombinant DNA vaccine. Regarding the vaccine safety, Nano Covax is deemed to be safe in the short term based on reports of phase 3 trials (during the monitoring of the volunteers’ health seven days after administration of the first dose for 11,430 volunteers, seven days after the administration of second doses for 5,785 volunteers). …

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