Vietnam to prioritize October vaccine batches for southern localities

With the October batch, the nation would have received around 110 million Covid-19 vaccine doses in total, Tuyen said.

He said 12 southern Vietnam localities – Tra Vinh, Ben Tre, Tien Giang, Can Tho, Kien Giang, Soc Trang, Hau Giang, Dong Thap, An Giang, Bac Lieu, Ca Mau and Vinh Long – are close to bringing the pandemic under control, but there are still risks of new outbreaks.

Around 2.7 million people in these localities have received at least one Covid-19 vaccine shot and round 690,000 people have been fully vaccinated, Tuyen said.

Vietnam has vaccinated around 32.7 million people with at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose. Around 9.5 million people have been fully vaccinated.