Vietnam kicks off Covid-19 vaccination campaign


A health worker injects a doctor with a dose of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine at Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, March 8, 2021. - AP

HANOI (Xinhua): Vietnam's Ministry of Health on Monday (March 8) started a Covid-19 vaccine inoculation campaign, the country's largest vaccination campaign in history, with over 100 million injections expected to be conducted nationwide, Vietnam News Agency reported Monday.

The first doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine began to be given at 8am local time Monday to health workers directly treating Covid-19 patients in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi, the southern Ho Chi Minh City and the northern Covid-19 epicenter Hai Duong province.

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