"The paid vaccination program should soon be implemented to protect workers' health and avoid supply chain disruptions," the commission, an advisory body to the Politburo, the main decision-making body of the Party, said in a proposal to Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

An FPT Software staff is injected with the AstraZenca Covid-19 vaccine at the company in Thu Duc City, June 19, 2021.

It also called for prioritizing manufacturing workers to keep the economy going.

Nearly 22,000 workers in 49 of the country's 63 provinces and cities have been infected in the current wave.

Currently vaccination is free for all while people can donate to a national Covid vaccine fund.

Many industry trade groups have sought permission to buy vaccines from abroad for their workers to prevent disruptions to the supply chain.

The current outbreak, triggered by the highly contagious Delta variant, has prompted many businesses including foreign giants such as Nike's contract manufacturer, footwear maker Pou Chen and South Korea’s Changshin to close their factories.

The government is seeking to speed up vaccination of the country’s nearly 100 million people of whom 11 million have received the first dose and 1.2 million have got both doses.

Expats offer to present 50,000 Covid-19 vaccine vials to Ho Chi Minh City

Lawyer Vo Duc Duy, a Vietnamese national in the US, and his colleagues have expressed their wish to present 50,000 vials of Moderna Covid-19 vaccine to Ho Chi Minh City which is being hit hard by the pandemic.

HCMC to receive 600,000 more Covid-19 vaccine doses

Ho Chi Minh City will receive 600,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses from Pasteur Institute to continue mass inoculation.

HCMC nearly out of allocated Covid-19 vaccine doses

The current speed of vaccination can see HCMC run out of the Covid-19 vaccine doses that the Ministry of Health has allocated to the city.

Urgent meeting held to evaluate homegrown Covid-19 vaccine Nano Covax

The National Ethics Committee in Biomedical Research under the Ministry of Health on August 7 held an urgent online meeting to review the results of the first phase of clinical trials of Vietnam’s domestically developed Covid-19 vaccine, Nano Covax, and to pass the mid-term assessment of its second phase.

Nearly 600,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses arrive in HCMC

592,100 AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine doses arrived in HCMC's Tan Son Nhat International Airport Friday morning per VNVC contract.

Source: VnExpress