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Vietnam announces contribution of $500,000 to vaccine sharing scheme COVAX

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has decided to add VND11.58 billion ($500,000) from the central budget reserve in 2021 to the Ministry of Health to make contributions to the COVAX (COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access) Facility. 

Vietnam to have additional 6 million doses of Pfizer, AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines

Vietnam expects to have 3 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine and 3 million doses of Pfizer vaccine from now to September.

1.7 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine arrive in Vietnam

As planned, 1,682,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine provided by the Covax Facility arrived in Vietnam on May 16.

COVID-19 vaccination set to begin in Vietnam on March 8

The first doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine produced in the Republic of Korea (RoK), will be injected into local people from March 8, said Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long at a meeting this morning.