Chinese Expert Tests Positive for COVID-19

The latest patients include a 25-year-old Chinese expert who entered Viet Nam on April 3 via the Huu Nghi International Border Gate in Lang Son Province.

The Chinese national is being treated at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ha Noi’s Dong Anh District.

All the other patients are Vietnamese repatriated from Japan (five), Russia (one), Romania (one) or returned to Viet Nam via the Ha Tien International Border Gate in Kien Giang Province.

Viet Nam received the first batch of 811,200 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine through COVAX Facility - a partnership between CEPI, Gavi, UNICEF and WHO, on April 1.

Since the country launched mass COVID-19 vaccination program on March 8, more than 66,360 frontline workers had been vaccinated in 22 cities and provinces, according to the Ministry of Health.

The ministry urged all localities to complete injection of allocated vaccine doses by May 5 or face having them redistributed.

Speaking at the Cabinet meeting on April 15, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh ordered the ministry and localities not to let any vaccine doses go to waste./.

By Thuy Dung