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Health Ministry urges quickening vaccination against Covid-19
Updated: 09:57, 24/04/2023
Amidst the rapidly increasing number of new cases of Covid-19, the Health Ministry has urged continued efforts to accelerate vaccination against Covid-19, with priority given to groups of high risks of developing serious symptoms and even dying when contracting the virus.
During the week from April 16 – 22, Vietnam counted 12,700 new cases, the highest weekly number since the beginning of the year.
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A health worker performs a COVID-19 vaccination shot. |
The total number of Covid-19 cases so far rose to 11,54,059, with 10,616,725 patients having recovered.
At present, 123 patients are in serious conditions needing breathing support, including 24 requiring invasive machine ventilation.
One death from Covid-19 was reported in Hanoi on April 22, raising the total fatalities from the pandemic so far to 43,187.
More than 266 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered so far.
(BGO)- Facing new developments of Covid-19 in
some countries and spike in Covid-19 cases nationwide, Chairman of the
provincial People’s Committee (PPC) has issued a directive to continue keeping
a close watch on the pandemic situation and attempt to prevent resurgence of
the pandemic in the locality.
British patients, Dixon John Garth and Shan Coralie Barker, returned to Hanoi-based National Hospital for Tropical Diseases on March 8 to thank doctors and nurses for taking care of them and saving them from Covid-19 three years ago.
HCMC healthcare authorities have 10,000 hospital beds on standby as a precaution amid the appearance of new Covid-19 variants.
Northern Lang Son Province will take test samples from people crossing the border from China into Vietnam if they have any symptoms such as fever, coughing or difficulty breathing.
An Omicron subvariant named XBB, believed to be highly contagious and capable of evading immune responses, has been found in HCMC.
Source: VNA
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