Vietnam among six countries with highest vaccine coverage rate: govt data

Students at a high school in Dong Nai Province get Covid-19 vaccine, November 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Thai Ha

Vietnam has injected 90 percent of its adult population with two Covid-19 vaccine doses and is among the six countries with the highest vaccination rate.

In late April last year, when the fourth Covid-19 wave emerged, Vietnam had administered only 320,000 vaccine doses and by last October, as many as 47 million, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh announced at a government meeting Wednesday.

To date, Vietnam has covered all people over 18 with the first shot and offered 90 percent of them the second dose.

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