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Workers in Bac Giang, Bac Ninh receive COVID-19 vaccinations

Workers in the northern provinces of Bac Giang and Bac Ninh, two localities hit hardest by the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, began receiving vaccinations on May 27.
Workers in Bac Giang, Bac Ninh receive COVID-19 vaccinations ảnh 1Preparations for COVID-19 vaccine injection (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - Workers in the northern provinces of Bac Giang and Bac Ninh, two localitieshit hardest by the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, began receiving vaccinations onMay 27.

Bac Giang had 300workers receiving shots and Bac Ninh 100.

Some 140,000 more workersin the two provinces are to receive shots soon.

A temporaryhospital for COVID-19 treatment has been built at a gymnasium in Bac Giang, withabout 540 beds and nearly 700 medical staff.

On the same day, aMinistry of Health (MoH) special taskforce on COVID-19 prevention and controlin Bac Ninh was set up, led by Deputy Minister Do Xuan Tuyen.

Minister of HealthNguyen Thanh Long has called on 125 medical schools nationwide to sendpersonnel to the two provinces in a bid to support the fight against thepandemic.

More than 1,970staffers and students at 15 medical schools have engaged in the fight invarious localities and helped the MoH’s General Department of PreventiveMedicine keep a close eye on the development of the pandemic.

As of May 27 noon,nearly 24,000 medical lecturers and students from 34 training establishments hadregistered to join.

Some 3,104domestic cases have been logged since Vietnam was hit by this fourth wave onApril 27./.
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