Nearly 1mln Vero Cell vaccine shots administered to HCM City residents
VOV.VN - Approximately one million doses of the Chinese-produced Vero Cell COVID-19 vaccine have been given to local people in Ho Chi Minh City, with all recipients in stable health condition, according to the HCM City Center for Disease Control (HCDC).
Overall, the southern city, the largest coronavirus hotspot in Vietnam, has administered a total of 5.4 million vaccine doses and is continuing to speed up its ongoing vaccination campaign.
The city is also carrying out mass COVID-19 testing for all residents during the extended social distancing period in order to detect and separate all F0 cases from the wider community.
According to the HCDC, a total of 41,955 F0 cases are self-isolating at home, with half of them returning from hospital. In addition, an additional 17,569 F1 cases are also self-isolating at home.
The southern metropolis is currently treating 36,029 COVID-19 cases, including 2,243 children under 16. Of the total, 2,563 patients are in critically ill condition, with many requiring mechanical ventilation. A further 20 are reliant on the life support machine called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).
HCM City is grappling with the fresh coronavirus outbreak, with approximately 4,000 new infections recorded daily. On August 23 alone it registered 4,251 infections and 340 deaths. As many as 1,671 patients fully-recovered from COVID-19 and were discharged from hospital on the same day.
