In the latest news, the city received an additional 600,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine allocated by the Ministry of Health for its 6th round of vaccination on August 9.

The municipal Department of Health said that on August 8, an additional 187,587 people were vaccinated, raising the total vaccinated people from July 22 to August 8 to 2,295,773 people.

Ho Chi Minh City started the 6th round of vaccination on August 3. This is a special vaccination campaign for all people from 18 years old, which will last until the end of August with the support of the Government.

HCM City Vice Chairman Duong Anh Duc said that in this round of vaccination, the city is using AstraZeneca, Moderna and Pfizer vaccines. Vaccination is on a voluntary basis.

Ho Chi Minh City has about 7 million people aged 18 and over. The city has asked the Government and the Ministry of Health to provide it with 5.5 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine in August, so that it can complete the goal of vaccinating 70% of people over 18 years old.

By August 9 morning, Ho Chi Minh City had a total of more than 124,000 infection cases, with 31,964 patients under treatment, including 1,213 critically ill patients who needed ventilators and 14 patients undergoing ECMO intervention.

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HCM City to take online apps that assist shoppers, COVID monitoring to more districts

Two geographical information system applications to help people shop online and authorities monitor the COVID-19 pandemic, trialled for one month in Thu Duc City, will now be expanded to 11 districts in HCM City.