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On March 8 morning, at Hai Duong City Medical Center, Kim Thanh District Medical Center in Hai Duong province, National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi, and Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City, the first jabs of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine were given to frontline medical workers, according to Zing News.

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Vu Thi Thanh Thu, working at the Department of General Internal Medicine, the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases was among the first people receiving Covid-19 vaccine.

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Three injection tables with fully essential equipment were arranged at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases. Each person will be intramuscularly administered two doses.

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Pham Thi Tuyet Nhung, 39, worker at Hai Duong City Medical Center was the first Covid-19 recipient in the province.

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Deputy Minister of Health Do Xuan Tuyen directly injected vaccine for a person.

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As the injection day falls on International Women's Day (March 8), female health workers in Hai Duong was given flowers by Deputy Health Minister Do Xuan Tuyen.

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This is the largest-scale vaccination campaign ever, according to the Health Ministry.

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Phung The Khang, a lecturer at Hai Duong Medical Technical University said "I do not feel anxious. On the contrary, I feel very happy and excited as being among the first people receiving vaccine".

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80 people belonging to 9 prioritized groups including health workers treating Covid-19 patients; contact tracers; epidemiological investigators, etc were vaccinated. Hai Duong City Health Center injected vaccine for 50 people while the Kim Thanh District Health Center injected 30.

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Doctor Nguyen Thanh Phong at HCMC Hospital for Tropical Diseases was one of the first people to be inoculated vaccine in the city.

“I am really proud to get vaccine. Vaccine is a dream of all humanity to fight against the pandemic and we are gradually realizing it”, Phong was quoted by Zing News as saying.

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Doctor Vu Cong Danh, working at the field hospital at Hai Duong Medical Technical University said that he has not found any abnormal signs after 30 minutes of receiving vaccine.

Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long earlier warned that the vaccine does not guarantee 100 percent immunity against Covid-19.

According to AstraZeneca, it is 76 percent effective, increasing to 81 percent after the second shot. The recipients are set to get the second dose after 12 weeks.

Long went on to stress the need for everyone to continue complying with the pandemic prevention protocol.

The first batch of 117,600 vaccine doses arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on a flight from Seoul on February 23, and after evaluating its quality, the health ministry approved the vaccination, Vnexpress reported.

In April Vietnam will get another 1.3 million doses through Covax, a global mechanism for developing, manufacturing, and procuring Covid-19 vaccines.

While the production of domestic vaccines is underway, the government has speeded up foreign procurement to inoculate prioritized groups.

It is negotiating with vaccine manufacturers in the U.S., Russia and some other countries to ensure it can obtain a total of 150 million doses to cover 70 percent of the country’s population this year.

It has also approved the use of Moderna and Sputnik V vaccines.

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