Health ministry plans Covid booster shots at year's end

A girl receives a Covid-19 vaccine shot in HCMC's District 1, October 27, 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Thanh Nguyen

Vietnam plans to begin giving Covid-19 booster shots either at the end of 2021 or early 2022, health minister Nguyen Thanh Long said Monday.

At a session with the National Assembly, Long said Vietnam has had contracts and agreements to secure around 200 Covid-19 vaccine doses, and 125 million doses have arrived.

"We are speeding up the process to receive all the vaccine doses by the end of the year to vaccinate people for free," he said.

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