Vietnam to launch vaccinations on Monday

Vietnam will launch its Covid vaccination campaign on Monday, the country’s
health minister said, after the country received the first batch of 117,000 doses
of the AstraZeneca vaccine last month.

The vaccinations will initially be conducted in 18 hospitals treating

coronavirus patients and areas with higher infection numbers, Minister
Nguyen Thanh Long said in a statement on Friday.

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Calls grow to prioritise Italy's priests for Covid

vaccination
Calls are growing in Italy to prioritise the vaccination of priests against Covid-
19 as the death toll among members of the clergy, many of whom have assisted
and comforted the sick since the beginning of the pandemic, approaches 270.

Dozens of dioceses, religious groups and priests have in recent weeks

expressed support for a call for priests to be prioritise from the archbishop of
Reggio Calabria, Giuseppe Fiorini Morosini, who in January told an
interviewer that the church was continuing to lose clergy to the disease: