Some 800,000 women over four months pregnant will be given H1N1 vaccinations from the 1.2 million doses pledged by the WHO according to health ministry’s Department of Preventive Health and Environment.

Other subjects to be given priority will be those with chronic diseases, he added.

The department said Vietnam will be helped with some 10 million doses of influenza A (H1N1) virus vaccines by other countries through the World Health Organization next year.

While the number of swine flu-positive cases is decreasing, more patients with critical conditions are being recorded, the Ministry of Health’s agency noted.

Since it was first detected in the country, the epidemic has claimed 43 lives with the latest death reported last Wednesday, a 20-year-old woman from the central province of Khanh Hoa who was seven weeks pregnant, Nga said.

Reported by Lien Chau