Woman get vaccinated against COVID-19 (Photo: VNA)According to the ministry’s latest COVID-19 risk levelstatistics, among over 10,600 communes and wards assessed, 90.7% are identifiedas ‘green zones’, 7.8% ‘yellow zones’, and only 1.5% ‘red zones’.
On July 26, the ministry reported 1,460 new infections – thehighest in the past 70 days.
In the face of the pandemic resurgence in some countries, PrimeMinister Pham Minh Chinh has ordered COVID-19 vaccination be sped up in anofficial dispatch sent to the People’s Committees of provinces and citiesnationwide, ministries, ministry-level and government agencies.
So far, more than 240 million vaccine doses have beenadministered in Vietnam with large coverage of the first and second doses,which has greatly helped bring the pandemic under control nationwide.
However, the dispatch noted, many localities and agencieshave lowered their guards while authorities in some places haven’t workeddrastically enough, making the vaccination progress lag behind schedule.
Meanwhile, the pandemic remains complicated andunpredictable in the world, and new waves of infections have occurred inseveral countries. Vietnam has continued to record cases of Omicron’s newsub-variants, BA.4 and BA.5, and is facing risks of new outbreaks.
Assigning tasks to the Ministry of Health, other ministriesand localities, he demanded a vaccination campaign be launched to completeinoculation for children aged 5 - 11 in August, finish the administration ofthe third and fourth doses to people aged 18 and above as soon as possible, andaccelerate the third shots for those aged 12 - 17.
Vaccination must be completed early for health workers, thepublic security and military forces, teachers, as well as those working in thetransport sector, essential service supply, tourism, trade centres,supermarkets, markets, businesses, and industrial parks.
In the dispatch, the Government leader also asked for morecommunications about vaccination, new sub-variants of Omicron and healthcareguidance, along with stronger examination, supervision and promotion ofinoculation activities./.
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