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It has been revealed that the total number of vaccinations has surpassed 200 million in about a year since the Vietnamese authorities started vaccinating the COVID-19 vaccine.
According to the Ministry of Health of Vietnam on the 16th, starting with the first COVID-19 vaccine on March 8 last year, more than 200 million vaccinations were completed the previous day, the first in over a year.
According to the Ministry of Health, adults over the age of 18 were vaccinated a total of 183.15 million doses, 71 million for the first dose, 67.8 million for the second dose, and 14.46 million for the third dose.
It also explained that in 47 of Vietnams 63 provinces and cities, 95% of adults had received two doses of the vaccine recommended by the World Health Organization. The remaining 17 provinces also have vaccination rates of 90-95%, he added.
The number of vaccinations for adolescents aged 12 to 17 years exceeded 17.05 million, including 8.75 million for the first and 8.3 million for the second. The youth vaccination rate is 94%.
Earlier, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long announced that in Vietnam as well as the global trend, Corona 19 omicron mutation has established itself as the dominant species, but the fatality rate has fallen sharply from 0.9% on the 1st of last month to 0.1% on the 1st of this month due to the high vaccination rate. have done
