“More than 150 million COVID-19 vaccine doses for 75 million people” is the goal of the largest vaccination campaign in the history of Vietnam.
The campaign starts from July 2021 and continues to April 2022. All adults over 18 years old will be vaccinated.
With mottos like "safety go along with vaccination”, "don't waste any dose" and "don't waste any money from Vietnam's Covid-19 Vaccine Fund", the vaccination campaign has been carefully prepared with many specific measures:
First, establish a vaccine preservation and transportation system under the management of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of National Defense. Vaccines are stored and transported in a very short time, from central warehouses in Military Regions to vaccination points.
Second, establish a quality monitoring system. The system will monitor the entire process of preservation, transportation, organization of vaccination, and online management of the entire vaccination process.
Third, the campaign mobilizes all forces with tens of thousands of medical facilities, medical staff, and other forces throughout the country, from the central and local levels, including the civil medicine and military forces, both public and private ownership.
Fourth, using information technology in vaccination management with the introduction of electronic health books to manage the vaccination process of each citizen and issue vaccine passports in the future.
In order to be able to access vaccines in the context of global scarcity, the Ministry of Health has made great efforts to bring vaccines to Vietnam.
After hundreds of discussions and negotiations with organizations and vaccine manufacturers since mid-2020, Vietnam has obtained more than 100 million doses of vaccine in 2021. Vietnam aims to reach 150 million doses to create herd immunity in late 2021 and early 2022.
Particularly in July 2021, more than 9 million doses of vaccine were delivered to Vietnam, at the time when the COVID-19 epidemic was complicated in Ho Chi Minh City and other provinces and cities. All vaccines, brought in Vietnam and licensed for use by the Ministry of Health, are safe and effective.
As of 4:00 p.m. on July 11, 2021, Vietnam has injected 4,051,585 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to its people. 277,447 people were fully vaccinated with 2 doses.
The vaccination campaign has been closely coordinated by ministries of Health, National Defense, Public Security, Information and Communication, and Transport... with the cooperation and contribution of many businesses as well as of millions of Vietnamese people across 5 continents.
All are united for a determination to repel the epidemic, protect the health and life of the people, and return to normal life as soon as possible./.
