18 babies mistakenly given Covid-19 vaccine dose


Nguyen Thanh Long visiting one of the babies mistakenly given a dose of the Covid-19 vaccine at Saint Paul Hospital in Hanoi. - Vietnam News/ANN

HANOI (Vietnam News/Asia News Network): Eighteen babies aged between two and six months in Hanoi’s Quoc Oai District were mistakenly inoculated with the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, according to the municipal Department of Health.

The department reported that on Wednesday, the Health Station of Yen Son Commune in Quoc Oai District mistakenly vaccinated the infants with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.

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