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Vietnam begins COVID-19 vaccinations after successful virus containment

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Thinh Nguyen, Reuters

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/afp/03/08/hanoi-vaccination.jpg"/><figcaption>A health worker (R) receives the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases in Hanoi on March 8, 2021, as Vietnam launched its first phase of vaccination to frontline personnel to battle the Covid-19 coronavirus. <em>Nhac Nguyen, Agence France-Presse</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>HANOI - Vietnam launched its COVID-19 vaccination program on Monday with healthcare workers first in the queue, even as the Southeast Asian country looked set to contain its fourth outbreak of the coronavirus since the pandemic began.</p><p>Vietnam has been lauded globally for its record fighting the virus. Thanks to early border closures, targeted testing, and a strict, centralized quarantine program, Vietnam has suffered fewer disruptions to its economy than much of Asia.</p><p>&quot;When it&#x27;s your turn, go and get your shot against COVID-19 to protect yourself and your relatives for a healthy community, the health ministry said in a statement on its website.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/01/28/21/nz-taiwan-top-covid-19-performance-ranking-us-uk-languish">NZ, Vietnam top COVID performance ranking; US, UK languish</a></li></ul><p>Vietnam has kept the total number of infections in the country of 96 million at around 2,500 and reported just 35 deaths. It crushed a first wave of cases in February last year, and a larger cluster detected among foreign tourists in April.</p><p>An outbreak in the central city of Danang was quickly contained in September and a fourth, more concerning outbreak of the more contagious variant of the virus first detected in Britain appears to have been largely brought under control across several northern provinces.</p><p>New cases in that outbreak, first detected in January, fell to single digits last week.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/02/02/21/vietnam-confirms-latest-virus-outbreak-includes-more-contagious-uk-variant">Vietnam confirms latest virus outbreak includes more contagious UK variant</a></li></ul><p>Vietnam&#x27;s government said last month it would acquire 150 million jabs for its COVID-19 vaccination program, including both those directly purchased and doses obtained via the COVAX vaccine-sharing scheme.</p><p>Monday&#x27;s shots were part of Vietnam&#x27;s first batch of 117,600 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine that arrived late last month.</p><p>The government plans free vaccinations, with frontline workers, security forces, diplomats, teachers and people of 65 or older among the first to be inoculated.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=1608933" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

<p>Vietnam launched its COVID-19 vaccination program on Monday with healthcare workers first in the queue, even as the Southeast Asian country looked set to contain its fourth outbreak of the coronavirus since the pandemic began.</p>

Vietnam launched its COVID-19 vaccination program on Monday with healthcare workers first in the queue, even as the Southeast Asian country looked set to contain its fourth outbreak of the coronavirus since the pandemic began.

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Vietnam begins COVID-19 vaccinations after successful virus containment

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Published Mar 08, 2021 12:46 PM PHT

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