Ho Chi Minh City will kick off a measles vaccination campaign at all medical stations in the 22 districts, and Thu Duc city from August 31 .

Vietnam logged no COVID-19 infections in the past 12 hours to 6am on March 31, keeping the nation’s tally unchanged at 2,594 cases, according to the Ministry of Health.

Vietnam has no new COVID-19 cases to report on March 19 morning, keeping the tally at 2,570, according to the Ministry of Health.

A total of 522 frontline medical workers and members of community-based anti-COVID-19 groups in Vietnam had been injected with COVID-19 vaccine during the first two days of the vaccination campaign that started on March 8.

Vietnam will receive 5,657,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine in March and April, all made by AstraZeneca, according to the National Expanded Immunisation Programme.

In the next school year, any student in Hanoi who has not had their vaccinations must be immunised to prevent diseases.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) will continue to use the ComBE Five vaccine in a national expanded immunisation programme (EIP), a senior official said.

ComBE Five vaccine will be used nationwide to replace Quinvaxem from late December after it was tested in seven provinces, the Ministry of Health announced on December 18.

The national digital vaccination database currently covers 11,000 immunisation locations in local health centres and hospitals across the country.

Immunisation work has made significant contributions to protecting and improving health of Vietnamese children and the public, realising Millennium Development Goals.