Vietnamese medical workers dedicate to help Laos in Covid-19 fight
	Ho Chi Minh City to receive additional 56,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses
	Over 10,000 frontline medical workers receive Covid-19 vaccine

Vehicles are stopped at a Covid-19 checkpoint in Bac Ninh Province, where a social distancing order due to Covid-19 is applied. Photo: VnExpress

Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son requested hospitals in Bac Ninh Province to develop processes to prevent cross-infection to ensure safety for medical workers during May 25 visit to inspect the Covid-19 prevention and control in the province.

The deputy minister emphasized the first main goal of the Bac Ninh health sector was receiving, treating, resuscitating and saving from mildly to critically ill Covid-19 patients, Zing News reported.

The second was ensuring absolute safety for patients (including both Covid-19 and common ones) and health workers. He has required hospitals in the province to focus on conducting regular testing and develop processes to avert the cross-transmission.

At the meeting, Director of Bac Ninh Provincial General Hospital Ha Ba Chan said it had screened patients in accordance with the guidance in the National Steering Committee’s official dispatch.

The hospital has also applied social distancing at the examination areas and dispensed medicine up to three months for outpatients with stable chronic diseases.

Family members of patients have been given hospital entrant tickets. Each patient has only one caregiver.

In addition, the hospital has established a group to closely monitor the Covid-19 prevention and control in the area.

First 100 medical workers in Khanh Hoa receive COVID-19 vaccine On March 12 morning, 100 medical workers at Khanh Hoa Hospital for Tropical Diseases were administered Covid-19 vaccine.

In Photo: First medical workers in Da Nang vaccinated with Covid-19 Da Nang held the first injections of Covid-19 vaccines for medical staff on the morning of March 12.

Da Nang commences Covid-19 vaccination for medical workers 100 doses of COVID-19 vaccine were transported to Da Nang and will be injected to frontline medical workers of municipal Lung Hospital on March 12.