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08/03/2021 11:17 GMT+7
Vietnam begins COVID-19 vaccination on March 8
Vietnam launches its COVID-19 inoculation drive on March 8 morning, administering the AstraZeneca vaccine to medical workers in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and northern Hai Duong province – the country’s biggest pandemic hotspot at present.
The vaccination is conducted at the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi, the HCM City Hospital for Tropical Diseases and two medical centres in Hai Duong.
As many as 100 staff members of the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases are expected to receive the shots in the morning of March 8. The hospital is allocated 450 doses among the first batch of 117,600 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine the country has received.
Ho Chi Minh City puts forth key solutions for knowledge-based economy
In his presentation at the working session of the 13th National Party Congress on January 27, Nguyen Thanh Phong, Party Central Committee member, Deputy Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee and Chairman of the City People’s Committee, focused on analyzing issues relating to the development of knowledge-based economy which were being carried out in the city.
Nguyen Thanh Phong, Party Central Committee member, Deputy Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee and Chairman of the City People’s Committee (Photo: VOV)
According to Chairman Phong, summarizing the experiences from successful reality of some countries in the region and around the world, Ho Chi Minh City always determines the importance of developing a knowledge-based economy in its development orientation and strategy.