Fifty foreign reporters in Vietnam get vaccinated against COVID-19

A foreign reporter gets vaccinated against COVID-19 (Photo: Trung Hieu)

Hanoi (VNA) – and press assistants at foreign press offices in Vietnam have
recently got their first shots, according to the Ministry of
Health.

The vaccination programme was jointly arranged by the and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. All necessary procedures were
taken, and no severe post-vaccination side effects occurred.

With a goal towards herd immunity to bring the life back to
normal, more than 600 members of foreign
diplomatic missions and United Nations agencies and their
family members in Vietnam were vaccinated against .

Speaking at the latest press briefing of the Foreign
Ministry on June 24, its spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang asserted that there is no
discrimination between Vietnamese and foreigners during the COVID-19
vaccination campaign.

In the humanitarian spirit, the Vietnamese Government always
cares for and supports foreigners living, studying and working in Vietnam so
they can live normally and safely, and receive medical care and intensive
treatment when necessary, she added./.