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Thailand’s Department of Disease Control (CDC) has urged more than 2 million elderly people to get COVID-19 shots before the Songkran festival as infections may soar during the festive period.

The Thai Government is ramping up the launch of fourth COVID-19 shots to residents in tourism-dependent regions, as the nation prepares for border reopening next month.

Ho Chi Minh City plans to give additional and booster shots of COVID-19 vaccine to its locals from December 10, according to a document submitted by the municipal Health Department to the municipal People’s Committee for approval.

Vietnam had administered over 102 million shots of COVID-19 vaccine as of November 16, ranking second in Southeast Asia after Indonesia.

As many as 4,283,906 COVID-19 vaccine shots were injected in Vietnam from March 8 to July 18, according to the Ministry of Health.

Singapore’s vaccination programme will now be expanded to those aged 45 to 59, said Health Minister Gan Kim Yong in a press conference on March 24.

A total 20,695 medical and other frontline workers nationwide got the COVID-19 shots as of March 16, according to the National Expanded Programme on Immunisation.

The Ministry of Health announced two more domestically-transmitted COVID-19 infections in the northern province of Hai Duong in the past 12 hours as of 6:00 am on March 12.