HCM City aims to complete injection of COVID-19 booster doses within next January
Ho Chi Minh City is striving to complete the injection of booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines into all local adults within January 2022, earlier than the target set by the Ministry of Health in the first quarter of next year.
HCM City aims to complete injection of COVID-19 booster doses within next January (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City is striving to complete the injection of booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines into all local adults within January 2022, earlier than the target set by the Ministry of Health in the first quarter of next year.
At a meeting on December 27, local authorities reported that last week, the number of new COVID-19 infections was under 1,000 each day with less than 50 deaths.
Head of the Office of the city Department of Health Nguyen Thi Huynh Mai said that as of December 27, the city had administered more than 14 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, with 7.9 million people receiving one shot, 6.9 million getting two shots and more than 438,000 receiving three shots.
She said that the city Department of Health has coordinated with local public and private clinics to mobilise personnel for vaccination activities.
Nguyen Hong Tam, Vice Director of the city Centre for Disease Control, held that as big holidays are coming and direct learning is being expanded, the number of infections will rise. However, the city has been ready for responding, he added.
Pupils at Trung Vuong high school in District 1 measure body temperature before entering school (Photo: VNA)
The city has allowed ninth and 12th graders to learn in-person at schools since December 12. Thanks to good adaptation of students and schools, in the last two weeks, teaching and studying activities have taken place stably and safely.
Basing on the good results, the city has decided to continue to allow ninth and 12th graders to learn at school this week.
Pham Duc Hai, deputy head of the city Steering Committee for COVID-19 prevention and control and economic recovery, said that as of December 23, the city discovered 47 infections in schools. All the cases have been handled in line with a safe procedure, he said.
Hai said that the city is considering the organisation of face-to-face learning to other grades in the coming time./.
Ho Chi Minh City on December 10 began to administer booster vaccine shots for high-risk groups and people aged 18 and above who had received 2 doses of the vaccine after 6 months.
Nearly 150,000 9th and 12th graders in Ho Chi Minh City returned to school on December 13 after a long time of learning online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Chinese Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City has donated 210 oxygen generators and 200 million VND (8,722 USD) to the city and its neighbouring southern provinces of Dong Nai, Binh Duong and Tien Giang serving the combat of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ho Chi Minh City’s Vietnam Fatherland Front on December 27 held a ceremony honouring 20 religious volunteers who have completed their task of supporting frontline forces at COVID-19 treatment hospitals in the city.
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This case marks the ninth fetal cardiac intervention conducted in HCM City, and it was considered the most technically demanding to date due to the fetus’s extremely early gestational age and the severity of the condition as diagnosed with aortic atresia.
The groundbreaking ceremony took place one day after the VNVC Vaccine JS Company and Sanofi Group exchanged cooperation documents on vaccine production technology transfer under the witness of State President Luong Cuong and French President Emmanuel Macron.
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Under the agreement, VNVC and Sanofi will gradually implement technology transfers to enable domestic production of several key Sanofi vaccines that are widely used in Vietnam. In addition, Sanofi will support VNVC in training human resources and quality management in vaccine research and manufacturing.
Despite the ongoing global circulation and unpredictable developments of SARS-CoV-2, the World Health Organisation (WHO) hasn’t issued new warnings about COVID-19, said the Ministry of Health.
HCM City aims to complete injection of COVID-19 booster doses within next January (Photo: VNA) 
Pupils at Trung Vuong high school in District 1 measure body temperature before entering school (Photo: VNA) 
