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More vaccines to be available from late July

Key vaccines are expected to arrive in Vietnam late July, said a health official.
An official from the Ministry of Health’s Pharmaceuticals ManagementDepartment on July 9 said key vaccines are expected to arrive in Vietnamlate July amid increasing demand as summer is the peak season of somediseases.

Deputy head of the department Nguyen Tat Dat said10,000 doses of imported PENTAXIM vaccine (5 in 1) will arrive on July20. Another 35,000 doses will be available in August and September.

Shipmentsof 100,000 doses of INFANRIX HEXA vaccine (6 in 1) are expected toarrive on August 15, while 145,000 doses of chickenpox vaccines will beimported in batches in mid-July, August and September, he said.

Datalso pledged adequate supplies of vaccines for Japanese encephalitisfor both the free-of-charge expanded programme on immunisation and paidvaccination service. The programme gives all under-5 children threefirst shots of this vaccine.

The ministry’s Department ofPreventive Medicine reported that as of July 4, 357 virusencephalitis cases were recorded in 32 out of the 63 provinces andcities, with six fatalities.

Meanwhile, there were 16,380 chickenpox patients as of the end of May compared to 7,900 cases from a year earlier.-VNA
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