Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines are used in the WHO-led Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) initiative, to which Vietnam is a recipient country. - AFP/Vietnam News/ANN
HANOI, Feb 23 (Xinhua): Around 600,000 Vietnamese health workers and others who work on the frontline of the fight against Covid-19 will be the first to receive COVID-19 vaccination in Vietnam, the country's Ministry of Health said on Tuesday.
According to a plan announced by the ministry on the allocation of Covid-19 vaccines provided by the World Health Organization-led mechanism COVAX, the 11 priority groups also include customs personnel, teachers, people aged over 65, adults with chronic diseases and others. The plan aims to immunize 95 percent of the groups against the virus by the end of 2022.
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