Over 16,000 experts, medical workers sent to southern region: Health Minister

Inside a COVID-19 treatment hospital in Ho Chi Minh City (Photo: vtv.vn)

Hanoi (VNA) – , have been deployed
by the to Ho Chi Minh City and southern provinces to fight
the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Minister Nguyen Thanh Long.

At an online meeting on August 29 of the National Steering Committee for
Prevention and Control with 1,060 communes, wards and towns in 20
provinces and cities now under social distance measures, under the chair of Prime Minister Pham Minh
Chinh, Minister Long also announced that the ministry has mobilized a large volume of equipment, ventilators, and medical supplies to send to these localities.

The ministry has established and operated effectively 11
resuscitation centres for patients in critical conditions in the southern region, with six in
Ho Chi Minh City, contributing to reducing the mortality rate.

Regarding vaccination against COVID-19, as of August 26, 19
southern localities had been allocated with more than 12.3 million doses, of
which about 10.5 million doses had been administered, including more than 9.9
million first jabs, Long stated.

Ho Chi Minh City alone had vaccinated more than 5.78 million
doses (81.6 percent), including nearly 5.6 million first injections.

As of August 28, Vietnam had administered more than 19.2
million doses of vaccines against COVID-19./.