An elderly woman gets vaccinated against COVID-19 at home in Cua Dong ward of Hanoi's Hoan Kiem district. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) –Many localities are stepping up COVID-19 vaccination for vulnerable groups,including the elderly and people with underlying health conditions.
In Hanoi, the work is beingaccelerated, especially for the high-risk groups, with medical workers sent toprovide in-home vaccination for those who are unable to get to an inoculation location.
People of the targeted groupsreceive check-ups and advice before getting the jab and have their healthmonitored after that.
Meanwhile, leaders of northernQuang Ninh province have requested the local health sector to carry out in-homevaccination for high-risk and vulnerable groups so as to ensure that no one inthose groups are left without inoculation, especially the persons unable toaccess a vaccination site, except for those subject to contraindication.
The local health sector wasalso asked to further speed up administering a booster dose to people aged 18and above so as to complete the task by January 17. Besides, it will continue the vaccination for children aged 12 and over.
As of late January 13, Vietnam recorded 1,975,444 cases of COVID-19 in total,including 1,661,930 recoveries and 35,170 deaths.
By January12, the country had administered over 164.48 million doses ofvaccines , with more than 71.70 million people now fully inoculatedand over 14.31 million the third shots, according to the Ministryof Health./.
Hanoi has secured enough COVID-19 vaccines to inject third shots for local residents, according to Tran Thi Nhi Ha, Director of the municipal Department of Health (DoH).
Treatment for COVID-19 patients, plan for the injection of third vaccine shots, and workforce supply following the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival were put under discussion during a periodic meeting in Ho Chi Minh City on January 10.
WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific Takeshi Kasai on January 11 said the World Health Organisation backs visions and viewpoints in the COVID-19 prevention and control programme set out by the Vietnamese Government to flexibly response to new variants.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh demanded COVID-19 vaccination be further sped up and disease prevention measures strengthened, in an official dispatch issued on January 11.
The impacts of COVID-19 vaccine race to international relations in the world and Vietnam were discussed at a scientific forum held by the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS) in Hanoi on January 12.
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The PM called for closer, broader, and more effective cooperation with Vietnamese partners, guided by the principles of mutual benefit, joint efforts, shared outcomes, and common development, including promoting stronger public-private partnerships and collaboration with businesses.
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This case marks the ninth fetal cardiac intervention conducted in HCM City, and it was considered the most technically demanding to date due to the fetus’s extremely early gestational age and the severity of the condition as diagnosed with aortic atresia.
The groundbreaking ceremony took place one day after the VNVC Vaccine JS Company and Sanofi Group exchanged cooperation documents on vaccine production technology transfer under the witness of State President Luong Cuong and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Vietnam’s traditional medicine took centre stage at the International Congress Biopharm Nonclinical Development, BioNCiD 2025, held on May 25-26 in the Cuban city of Varadero, amid growing global interest in sustainable healthcare solutions.
Under the agreement, VNVC and Sanofi will gradually implement technology transfers to enable domestic production of several key Sanofi vaccines that are widely used in Vietnam. In addition, Sanofi will support VNVC in training human resources and quality management in vaccine research and manufacturing.
Despite the ongoing global circulation and unpredictable developments of SARS-CoV-2, the World Health Organisation (WHO) hasn’t issued new warnings about COVID-19, said the Ministry of Health.
An elderly woman gets vaccinated against COVID-19 at home in Cua Dong ward of Hanoi's Hoan Kiem district. (Photo: VNA) 
