Vietnam to conduct largest-ever vaccination campaign

ABO/NDO – Vietnam is about to launch the largest-ever vaccination campaign with around 150 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to be injected, Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long has said.

Addressing a conference on the implementation of the national COVID-19 vaccination campaign on June 15, Long said that eight storage facilities will be installed, with one in the High Command of Hanoi Capital, and seven in seven military regions across the nation.

All vaccine storage facilities must meet Good Storage Practices (GSP) standards to ensure vaccine quality, he stated.

Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long chairs the conference. (Photo: Ministry of Health).

During the campaign, all vaccination stations will be strictly supervised by an online control system, with information on the numbers of people getting injections as well as vaccine doses inoculated to be publicised.

About 15,000 vaccination stations have assigned sufficient human resources and accounts to update and publicize the vaccination process, the number of used doses and the number of people vaccinated, he added.

The minister emphasised the need to ensure absolute safety from vaccine transportation and preservation to vaccination organisation.

213 cases of COVID-19 were recorded this evening, raising the number of cases logged on June 15 to 402, including four imported ones, according to the Ministry of Health.

During the past 24 hours, Bac Giang logged 235 cases, Ho Chi Minh City 90, Bac Ninh 55, Binh Duong 12, Ha Tinh three, Lang Son two and Hanoi one.

Also during the day, 303 COVID-19 patients were given the all-clear, bringing the number of recoveries to 4,543. The death toll was 61.

As of 6 pm June 15, the national tally reached 11,212, including 9,566 domestically-transmitted cases.
Twenty three provinces and cities have gone through 14 days without new COVID-19 cases.
Among active patients, 343 have tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 once, 99 twice and five thrice.

(Source: NDO)