The Health Ministry has pushed the completion deadline for inoculating the second Covid-19 shots 10 days earlier to May 5 due to concerns about vaccine expiration. Read more »
The Health Ministry has pushed the completion deadline for inoculating the second Covid-19 shots 10 days earlier to May 5 due to concerns about vaccine expiration. Read more »
There are "challenges" to securing Covid-19 vaccines, and the AstraZeneca vaccine is safe despite reports of adverse reactions, the Health Ministry has said. Read more »
Hanoi plans to administer about 350,000 Covid-19 jabs this year, according to the municipal Health Department. Read more »
Around 10,000 employees at Tan Son Nhat airport would receive Covid-19 jabs from a 56,000-dose batch destined for HCMC, the city's Health Department said Monday. Read more »
Vietnam aims to secure enough Covid-19 vaccines for its population starting next year through both local production and imports. Read more »
Vietnam has sought assistance from the EU, the U.S. and Japan for accessing Covid-19 vaccine sources, the Ministry of Health said. Read more »
Vietnam wants to cooperate with India and Russia to develop Covid-19 vaccines and needs China's help to inoculate prioritized groups, Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said. Read more »
Vietnam logged no COVID-19 cases in the past 12 hours to 6:00 am on March 27, according to the Ministry of Health. Read more »
Businesses in Vietnam would not be allowed to import Covid-19 vaccines to perform inoculation themselves, the Ministry of Health said. Read more »
Vietnam expects to start producing its own Covid-19 vaccine by the end of the third quarter, according to the Ministry of Health. Read more »
U.S. pharmaceutical firm Pfizer may provide Vietnam with 30 million Covid-19 vaccine doses within 2021 as negotiations with the health ministry continue, Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said Wednesday. Read more »
Vietnam should first test out "vaccine passports" on certain groups of entrants before the policy could be officially applied. Read more »
The number of people experiencing side effects after receiving their Covid-19 shots in Vietnam is "within the expected level," according to the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology. Read more »
Vietnam logged no COVID-19 cases in the past 12 hours to 6:00 am on March 13, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control. Read more »
Central Da Nang City would begin its Covid-19 vaccination campaign Friday with 100 shots prioritized for frontline workers at the municipal Lung Hospital. Read more »
The 30 million AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine doses bought by Vietnam Vaccine JSC (VNVC) would be handed over to the Ministry of Health on a non-profit basis. Read more »
Dr Du Le Thanh Xuan of the HCMC Hospital for Tropical Diseases' intensive care unit became the first person to be vaccinated against Covid-19 at her hospital. Read more »
Vietnam will receive four million more COVID-19 vaccine doses in March and April, World Health Organization representative to Vietnam Kidong Park said on Monday. This will help the country expand... Read more »
Vietnam posted zero new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday morning, leaving the national infection count unchanged at 2,524, including 1,586 domestically-transmitted cases, and 938 imported cases. Read more »
Thirteen provinces and cities with Covid-19 outbreaks would be the first to be vaccinated until April, according to an inoculation schedule until 2022 issued by the Health Ministry Saturday. Read more »
Vaccination using the recently imported AstraZeneca vaccine is expected to start on March 8, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long informed a meeting of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19... Read more »
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has reaffirmed that the Government will allocate funds to ensure COVID-19 inoculation for the entire population. Read more »
117,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine reached Vietnam on Wednesday, the first of 30 million doses that will be brought in by the Vietnam Vaccine Joint Stock Company (VNVC)... Read more »
Health authorities in Hanoi have proposed the purchase of 15 million COVID-19 vaccine doses for a double inoculation plan, according to Hoang Duc Hanh, deputy director of the municipal Department of Health. The... Read more »
Vietnam is negotiating to import around 30 million doses and get another 30 million from the global vaccine-sharing scheme for 2021. Read more »
Hanoi has proposed buying Covid-19 vaccines for its citizens with its own budget and other financial sources, the municipal Party Committee said Wednesday. Read more »
Europe launches a cross-border vaccination programme of unprecedented scale on Sunday as part of efforts to end a COVID-19 pandemic that has crippled economies and claimed more than 1.7 million... Read more »
Many Southeast Asian countries have taken various measures to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus since the number of infections have increased in the nations recently. Read more »
SINGAPORE — Singapore became on Monday the first Asian country to approve Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine and said it expects to start receiving shots by the end of the year. Prime... Read more »