People get vaccinated against COVID-19 (Photo: VNA)Speaking at a teleconference with 63 provinces and cities,and ministries and sectors on intensifying epidemic prevention and control andvaccination against COVID-19, Lan said that the communication work to mobilise andencourage people to participate in pandemic prevention and control, especiallyvaccination, is not really effective, while resources for pandemic preventionand control have not been guaranteed, and the shortage of drugs and medicalsupplies occurs in many places.
According to the ministry, currently, the COVID-19 pandemicand other infectious diseases such as seasonal flu, dengue fever, andhand-foot-mouth disease are basically controlled nationwide. The ministry isalso keeping a close watch on developments of monkeypox and other emergingdangerous infectious diseases in the region and the world.
Nguyen Luong Tam, Deputy Director of the Preventive MedicineDepartment, said that in the first seven months of this year, Vietnam recordedover 9 million COVID-19 cases, accounting for 83.9% of the total, of whom over8.5 million recovered fully. However, since the end of March, the pandemic hasbeen well controlled across the nation.
As of July 31, the country had administered over 245.7million doses of COVID-19 vaccines.
Since the beginning of this year, over 136,000 cases ofdengue fever and 45 fatalities have been reported.
However, no cases of Monkeypox, acute hepatitis and othergroup A infectious diseases have been recorded in Vietnam nationwide.
In the last months of 2022, the Ministry of Health requireslocalities to closely monitor the diseases, especially the appearanceof new variants; intensify surveillance, early detection and timely treatmentof infections, limit the number of severe cases, and better disease preventionand control at border gates./.
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