Vietnam launched their COVID-19 vaccination program Monday with health care workers first in the queue, even as the Southeast Asian country looked likely to have a fourth outbreak of its coronavirus since the onset of the pandemic.
Vietnam has been praised around the world for its virus fighting record. Thanks to early border closures, targeted testing, and a tight, centralized quarantine program, Vietnam has caused less disruption to its economy than much of Asia. “When you have the chance, go and get your picture against COVID-19 to protect yourself and your friends for a healthy community, the ministry of health said in a statement on its website.
Vietnam has kept the total number of diseases in the country at 96 million at around 2,500 and has announced just 35 deaths. They hit the first wave of cases in February last year, and found a bigger browser among foreign tourists in April. A revolt in downtown Danang abruptly erupted in September and the fourth, more about an outbreak of the infectious variant of the virus first detected in Take control of Britain over a number of northern areas.
New cases in that behavior, first discovered in January, fell to single numbers last week. The Vietnamese government said last month that it would receive 150 million injections for its COVID-19 vaccine program, including both those purchased directly and doses received through a scheme COVAX vaccine distribution.
Pictures Monday as part of Vietnam’s first batch of 117,600 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine arrived at the end of the month. The government designs free vaccines, with frontline workers, security forces, diplomats, teachers and people 65 or older among the first to be included.
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