72 first officers, doctors and medical staff of the 198 Hospital under the Ministry of Public Security have been injected with AstraZeneca vaccine by April 7.
PSNews - An additional 1,840 people were vaccinated against the disease on March 31, raising the total to 48,256, with no serious side-effects reported.
The COVID-19 vaccination has been carried out in 19 cities and provinces nationwide, with close to 40,000 Vietnamese citizens getting the first jabs of the AstraZeneca vaccine, the Ministry of Health said on March 25 morning.
According to the British Embassy in Hanoi, AstraZeneca and Vietnam Vaccine JSC (VNVC) are partnering to deliver 30 million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to Vietnam, starting from the first half of 2021.