A woman receives a vaccine as Vietnam starts its official rollout of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine for health workers, at Hai Duong Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Hai Duong province, Vietnam on Monday (March 8, 2021). - Reuters
HANOI, March 8 (AP): Vietnam administered its first Covid-19 doses on Monday to the front-line workers who made the nation's relative success in controlling the pandemic possible - health workers, contact tracers and security forces who handled quarantine duties.
The South-East Asian nation of 96 million people has a goal to inoculate at least half of the population by the end of the year.
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