Quang Ninh strives to reach herd immunity next April

Giving COVID-19 vaccine shot to a medical staff in Quang Ninh (Photo: VNA)

Quang Ninh (VNA) – The northern province of Quang
Ninh is striving to give vaccination to 70-80 percent of local residents by April 2022 in order to reach herd immunity against COVID-19.

According to head of the provincial Health Department Nguyen
Trong Dien, to this end, the locality is speeding up
campaign.

Recently, the province has administered tens of thousands of
Sinopharm vaccine doses to workers in Chinese-invested firms in Quang
Ninh and border residents, he said.

Meanwhile, Hoang Ba Nam, Secretary of the Party Committee of
Mong Cai city said that the city has received 31,000 doses of Sinopharm
COVID-19 vaccine. With a capacity of injecting 4,000-5,000 doses per day, Mong
Cai plans to finish the administration of 31,000 doses by
July 20.

So far, has received about 260,000 COVID-19
vaccine doses of different kinds, with 60,000 doses administered. The province
expects to inject the rest in July and August while waiting for more vaccine delivery.

The province hopes to become one of the first
localities in Vietnam to reach . It is planning to build a vaccination database and start the use of vaccine passport. The locality has also
allocated personnel to deliver COVID-19 vaccines to locals in ethnic
minority-inhabited, mountainous, islands and hard-to-reach areas./.