TIMELINE OF ONE-YEAR VACCINATION ROLLOUT IN VIET NAM

VGP - After one year, Viet Nam has administered over 198 million doses, raising the vaccination coverage to 98.7 percent of individuals aged 18 and above, 94 percent of children of 12-17 years of age, and 38.4 percent of adults given the booster shots.

Author Huong Giang | 

March 11, 2022 3:55 PM GMT+7

March 8, 2022 marked one year since Viet Nam launched the largest vaccination campaign against COVID-19, which turned Viet Nam into one of the six countries with the highest vaccination rate.

Particularly, the Government decided to implement the Spring Inoculation campaign from January 28 to February 29 with an aim to bring children back to school as soon as possible.

About 1 million children aged 5-11 are expected to get vaccine in the time to come as the Government had ordered nearly 22 million doses from Pfizer. 

High vaccination rate allowed Viet Nam to switch away from its previous COVID-19 response policy of zero-COVID-19 to safe and flexible adaptation to the pandemic since last October.

The Southeast Asian country began to welcome back foreign tourists from November last year under a pilot program and has decided to reopen borders to all international tourists from March 15.

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