Vietnam has spent nearly 45.1 trillion Vietnamese dong ($1.9 billion) from the state budget for COVID-19 prevention and control work in 2022, the country’s health ministry said.
The amount was less than the more than 51.2 trillion Vietnamese dong (nearly $2.2 billion) spent in 2021, the ministry announced at the second extraordinary meeting of the 15th National Assembly, local newspaper Nhan Dan (People) reported. ) Thursday.
Vietnam has flexibly implemented a number of mitigation measures to prevent and contain the pandemic, including measures that had not been applied before or not enshrined in laws in urgent situations, Health Minister Dao Hong Lan said.
According to a report submitted to the National Assembly, Vietnam will consider downgrading COVID-19 from a class A infectious disease, classified as “particularly dangerous” to a class B “dangerous.”
It will also continue its COVID-19 vaccination program, focus on improving the health system and further improving the quality of human resources, address post-COVID-19 issues and strengthen inspection to prevent misconduct and corruption in pandemic prevention work detect immediately.
The data showed that since Thursday, the country has reported more than 11.5 million cases of COVID-19 infections, including nearly 43,200 deaths. More than 10.6 million cases have recovered and more than 265.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered, according to the Ministry of Health.