Provinces blame low vaccination rates on low vaccine supply

A woman receives a Covid-19 vaccine shot in Hanoi, September 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Ngoc Thanh

While the health ministry has complained about low vaccination rates in certain localities, local authorities say the problem is actually a lack of distributed doses.

In a November 14 document, the Ministry of Health said that around 18 million distributed vaccine doses remained unused. Over 5.2 million of these doses were in the north and 8.2 million doses in the south, the ministry said.

The localities with high numbers of unused vaccine doses included Hanoi with 760,000, Thanh Hoa with 639,000, Nghe An with 910,000, Ho Chi Minh City with 506,000 and An Giang with 1.2 million doses.

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