HCM City to administer nearly 1 mln doses of COVID-19 vaccine
VOV.VN - More than 800,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been transported to the cold storage facility of the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City in preparation for the rollout of a large-scale vaccination campaign.
According to information given by Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son on June 17, the country has received nearly one million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, of which 836,000 doses have been delivered to Ho Chi Minh City.
He noted that the southern metropolis will launch the next stage of its vaccination campaign at 1,000 locations throughout the city over the next two days. The campaign is scheduled to be completed within five to seven days.
Previously HCM City had already received 140,000 vaccine doses allocated by the Ministry of Health, with 74,000 people being injected so far.
The fresh coronavirus outbreak has spread to all of the city’s 22 districts and downs in less than a month. More than 800 people have tested positive for the virus, making HCM City the third largest COVID-19 hotspot in Vietnam. The number is expected to rise in the coming days.
