reader Posted September 13, 2021 Posted September 13, 2021 From Vietnam News Almost one million adults were vaccinated against COVID-19 in Hà Nội over the weekend as the capital city is ramping up inoculation efforts, according to the city’s Health Department. The department said 411,000 injections were administered on Saturday and 537,828 on Sunday. This was the highest number of people vaccinated since the city began its push to inoculate all adults, and was almost eight times higher than most injections given each day last month. Along with the city’s health workers, about 400,000 medical staff from 11 northern provinces supported Hà Nội in both testing and vaccinations. https://vietnamnews.vn/society/1030427/ha-noi-injects-almost-1-million-vaccine-shots-in-two-days.html =============================== From Channel News Asia Fifteen people including a seven-year-old boy have been found inside a refrigerated truck in Vietnam after they tried to escape areas of the south badly hit by COVID-19, state media said Monday (Sep 13). Vietnam has been battling a devastating fourth wave of the virus since April and tens of millions of people are under stay-at-home orders, with domestic travel largely forbidden. On Sunday, police in Binh Thuan province discovered the group of 15 inside a vehicle that had aroused suspicion as it tried to pass a virus checkpoint on its way north, Ho Chi Minh City's Phap Luat online newspaper said. "Police were so surprised to see 15 people at the back of the truck ... Some of them were sweating and showed symptoms of breath shortness," the report said, adding the passengers were carrying negative COVID-19 test certificates. A passenger said they had asked the driver to turn off the truck's refrigeration system as it had been too cold. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/vietnam-fleeing-covid-19-refrigerated-truck-2174296 Quote
