Covid-19 vaccination begins for frontline workers
By Thu Anh, Chi Le  March 8, 2021 | 09:46 am GMT+7
Nguyen Thi Hue, a medical worker in Hai Duong Province, is injected with AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, March 8, 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Gia Chinh.
Medical and other frontline workers in Hanoi, HCMC and Hai Duong got the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine on Monday morning.
At 6:15 a.m. the Vietnam Vaccine JSC sent the vaccines to the HCMC Hospital for Tropical Diseases where 900 medical workers are to be given shots.
At the same time in Hanoi, specialized vehicles transported the vaccines to the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases.
Dr Vu Minh Dien, deputy director of the hospital’s center for pandemic prevention and vaccination, said 420 medical personnel would be immunized in the first phase.