Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 13:38 GMT+7
A medical worker prepares a shot of AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases – Dong Anh District Branch in Hanoi, March 8, 2021. Photo: Nam Tran / Tuoi Tre
Five people who were among the first in Vietnam to be injected with a COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca/Oxford have experienced side effects, according to the Ministry of Health.
Since the launch of the COVID-19 vaccination
on Monday, a total of 522 medical workers, who are directly treating COVID-19 patients, conducting sampling and testing, and performing contact-tracing tasks, have received the shots, according to the Expanded Program on Immunization.