HCM City authorities launched the biggest Covid-19 vaccination campaign on June 19 to vaccinate hundreds of workers at the Hi-tech Industrial Park in Thu Duc.
Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh, Party Secretary of HCM City Nguyen Van Nen, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long and other state officials visited the opening ceremony. Over 400 workers will be vaccinated on June 19.
On June 17, over 800,000 doses of vaccines were transferred to HCM City. This is part of the one million doses of vaccine given to Vietnam by Japan. Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son said they had already worked with the HCM City Covid-19 Prevention Committee, Department of Health and the city CDC to launch the vaccination campaign immediately after checking the status of the vaccine.
The city planned to set up 1,000 vaccination sites during this campaign. Over 1,000 teams of five members have been set up with different tasks so far.
Priority will be given to frontline workers, teachers, people living in outbreak areas, policy beneficiaries, Vietnamese employees and diplomats abroad and customs and immigration officers.
From June 3 until now, HCM City authorities have given the first shot of the Covid-19 vaccine to 13,450 people and the second shots to 4,750 people.