 A medical worker is vaccinated. (Photo: suckhoedoisong.vn) |
The Ministry of Health has distributed 8.16 million vaccine doses to localities with priority to pandemic-hit provinces and cities, key economic areas, and cities with many industrial parks, a dense population, and international border gates.
To ensure the goals of pandemic containment and economic development, the Ministry of Health has added more prioritized groups to be vaccinated, including workers and their relatives working at essential service sectors, hotels, restaurants, banks, and healthcare centers, traders, self-employed people, people who travel abroad for work and study, and foreign experts in Vietnam.