VOV.VN - Medical workers directly involved in treating COVID-19 patients at 18 medical facilities and prioritised categories of people in 13 pandemic-hit localities will be among the first to be vaccinated throughout March and April, with the COVID-19 epicentre of Hai Duong being given the highest priority.
VOV.VN - The first doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine produced in the Republic of Korea (RoK), will be injected into local people from March 8, said Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long at a meeting of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control on March 5.
VOV.VN - Vietnam confirmed three new imported cases of COVID-19 on March 3 morning, raising the national tally of imported cases to 914, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health confirmed no new locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases on the morning of March 1, keeping the national tally at 2,448, while the total recoveries hit 1,876 in total after a further 32 coronavirus patients were declared free from the virus one day earlier.
VOV.VN - Covivac, a COVID-19 vaccine developed by the Institute of Vaccines and Medical Biology (Ivac), will be tested in healthy volunteers in Vietnam on March 3, Ivac has announced.
VOV.VN - The national vaccination campaign against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) may be delayed slightly due to the need to check the quality of the vaccine, according to Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long.
VOV.VN - Nano Covax, Vietnam’s first locally-produced COVID-19 vaccine, has elicited a host of antibodies that help to protect those injected against the B.1.1.7 variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus which originates from the UK, according to a leading Vietnamese scientist.
VOV.VN - As many as 35 volunteers participated in the second phase of human trials for the locally-produced Nano Covax vaccine against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on February 26 at the Military Medical Academy in Hanoi.
VOV.VN - The second phase of human trials for the locally-produced Nano Covax vaccine against COVID-19 were launched on the morning of February 26, following the completion of the first phase to prove the vaccine’s safety.
VOV.VN - The nation is projected to receive 150 million doses of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines from foreign and domestic sources by 2022, with seven batches being supplied by British-Swedish firm AstraZeneca, global vaccine access mechanism COVAX, and other domestic producers.