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India Covid crisis should work as wake-up call for Vietnam: experts
By Le Nga, Chi Le April 27, 2021 | 01:22 pm GMT+7
With Vietnam entering a four-day holiday after a month without local transmission of Covid-19, health experts warn of a possible India-like scenario.
This weekend a four-day break marks Reunification Day on April 30 and Labor Day on May 1.
With a month just passing without a single case of Covid, many people are expected to go on tours and to places of amusement, resulting in mass gatherings.
This is worrying health experts, who fear a new outbreak could occur just as happened in India.
Covid-19 vaccination side effects are mostly mild Chia sẻ | FaceBookTwitter Email Copy Link Copy link bài viết thành công
12/03/2021 09:08 GMT+7
Many health-care workers have experienced side effects following Covid-19 vaccinations but most of these have been mild.
On March 8-9, 522 health workers in Hanoi, HCM City, Hai Duong and Gia Lai provinces received the AstraZeneca vaccine.
They included 107 employees of the Hanoi-based Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases, 104 staff members of HCM City Hospital for Tropical Diseases, 206 health workers in northern province of Hai Duong and 69 people in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai.
At the Hanoi-based Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Dr. Vu Minh Dien, Deputy Director of the Center for Disease Control, said that within 30 minutes after vaccination, there were no cases of side effects reported
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.