According to reports from the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in Hanoi and the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, many agencies have not received vaccines from these institutes for vaccination.

The Ministry of Health has issued a warning for the units that were allocated vaccines in phase 8-13. After August 8, if they do not come to the above institutes to receive the vaccines, the Ministry will allocate the vaccines to other agencies and consider not allocating vaccines to these agencies in the vaccination phases.

The Ministry of Health told the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology and the HCM City Pasteur Institute to immediately notify these units to get the vaccine within five days since receiving the allocation decision from the Ministry of Health; otherwise, the directors of these institutes must be fully responsible for the delay.

The Ministry of Health has also issued a decision to ask relevant agencies to speed up vaccination amid the complicated development of Covid-19 epidemic and a large number of vaccine doses to be shipped to Vietnam in the coming time.

The Ministry asked the agencies to speed up vaccination against Covid-19 for all subjects aged 18 and over in their area; to give priority to frontline forces, the elderly (60 years old and older), and those with underlying diseases in accordance with Resolution No. 21 and Decision No. 3355 of the Ministry of Health, and to report on vaccination progress on a daily basis.

By August 10, any agency that implements vaccinations slowly will be named publicly by the Ministry of Health in the mass media and be reported to the Prime Minister. The Ministry of Health will also consider transferring their vaccines to other agencies and will not allocate more vaccines to them in the following vaccine allocation phases.

To date, Vietnam has received more than 18.5 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, but only over 8 million doses have been administered.

Thuy Hanh

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