VOV.VN - Approximately 26% of people who had the COVID-19 vaccination globally recorded common reactions, with 0.7% having a severe reaction, and the figure dropping to 0.1% in Vietnam, according to Prof. Dr. Dang Duc Anh, director of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology.

Many domestic and foreign organizations and businesses have contacted the Ministry of Health to suggest providing vaccines against COVID-19.

VOV.VN - As many as 10,041 Vietnamese people have received AstraZeneca vaccine shots since the national COVID-19 vaccination campaign was launched on March 8, and no serious side-effects have been reported, according to the Ministry of Health.

VOV.VN - With no blood clots yet to be reported, Vietnam will continue to use the AstraZeneca vaccine for the national vaccination programme, said a leading health official.

Vietnam Airlines has offered to transport domestically free of charge 5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine (11.5 tonnes) supplied by COVAX Facility - a mechanism set up by the World Health Organization (WHO), from March 15.

VOV.VN - Amid increasing concerns about losing out to foreign rivals, the Vietnamese tourism industry is in the process of devising ways in which to welcome back foreign travelers, providing that they enter the country with a vaccine passport.

VOV.VN - As many as 1,585 Vietnamese people in nine cities and provinces have been given AstraZeneca vaccine shots against COVID-19 since the national vaccination campaign was launched on March 8.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health on March 12 morning confirmed two coronavirus cases in Hai Duong province, the country’s biggest coronavirus hotspot.

VOV.VN - Hai Phong launched its vaccination campaign to combat the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on March 11, with medical workers in the northern city being inoculated with the AstraZeneca vaccine.

VOV.VN - With the March 8 launch of the national COVID-19 vaccination campaign to protect its people from the spread of the virus and additional batches of the vaccines poised to be delivered in the near future, Vietnam is hoping to achieve wider immunity against the virus over the coming months.