Getting vaccinated not only reduces your chance of being infected and protect your health but also guarantees other benefits in traffic activities for those who have been vaccinated against COVID-19.

Being fully vaccinated with 2 doses against COVID-19 helps protect people's health. Photo: T.V

COVID-19 vaccines help our bodies develop immunity against the virus that causes COVID-19 without us having to get the illness. According to information from the Vietnamese Ministry of Health, different types of vaccines work in different ways to offer protection.

But with all types of vaccines, the body is left with a supply of “memory” T-lymphocytes as well as B-lymphocytes that will remember how to fight that virus in the future. It typically takes a few weeks after vaccination for the body to produce T-lymphocytes and B-lymphocytes.

Sometimes after vaccination, the process of building immunity can cause symptoms such as fever. These symptoms are normal and are signs that the body is building up immunity.

Vaccination keeps you from getting and spreading the virus that causes COVID-19 as well as keeps you from getting seriously ill even if you do get COVID-19.

Moreover, getting vaccinated yourself may also protect people around you, particularly people at increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19.

So far, Viet Nam has received and put into used COVID-19 vaccines, including AstraZeneca, Vero Cell, Moderna, Pfizer and Sputnik. These COVID-19 vaccines are not experimental vaccines and have undergone all mandatory stages of clinical trials to demonstrate their safety and effectiveness.

Vietnamese Government has also recently issued Resolution No. 109/NQ-CP dated September 20, 2021, on the purchase of Abdala vaccine against COVID-19 manufactured by the Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, based in Cuba.

According to Dr Rochelle Walensky, if you have had COVID-19 before, please still get vaccinated. Experts say people who've had COVID-19 but are unvaccinated are more than twice as likely to develop the disease than those vaccinated.

Apart from that, the injection of 1 or 2 doses of COVID-19 vaccines is also valuable during participating in transportation amid the COVID-19 situation. For example, fully vaccinated entrants to Viet Nam have been entitled to a shortened concentrated quarantine period as compared to those who have not been vaccinated. Simply put, fully vaccinated entrants fully meet the following conditions shall only be subject to 7-day concentrated quarantine and another 7 days for self-monitoring their health status.

For the time being, some localities have carried out using the so-called ‘COVID-19 yellow card’ or the ‘COVID-19 green card’ as a ‘ticket’ to commute instead of using travel passes as before and directly do administrative procedure transactions.  Da Nang has not officially implemented this model.

Reporting by T.V- Translating by T.VY