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Vietnam's Covid-19 vaccine strategy: speeding up vaccinations with 1 million doses per day

Access to Covid-19 vaccine sources has been difficult due to a scarcity of supply in the world. What solutions will Vietnam need to buy enough Covid-19 vaccines for its people?

 

 

Vietnam's Covid-19 vaccine strategy: speeding up vaccinations with 1 million doses per day

Access to Covid-19 vaccine sources has been difficult due to a scarcity of supply in the world. What solutions will Vietnam need to buy enough Covid-19 vaccines for its people?

Vietnam makes Covid-19 treatment drug, awaits trial results in other countries

Scientists need to study and master the technology and start a pilot small production process of a treatment drug for Covid-19 before organizing production on industrial scale, Phan Van Hieu, a respected pharmacist, said.

First Pfizer vaccine shipment likely to arrive in Vietnam in July

The first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer Biopharmaceutical is likely to arrive in Vietnam in July, according to a representative from the US drug maker.

PM approves funding to buy 61 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has signed a decision to grant more funding to the Ministry of Health to buy 61 million doses of vaccine Covid-19.

Vietnam offers free vaccinations, considers paid vaccinations after reaching herd immunity

Along with free vaccinations for priority groups, the Ministry of Health (MOH) is planning to activate the expanded program on immunization (free of charge) and the vaccination that requires payment.

PM ask AstraZeneca to deliver 10 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine by August

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked AstraZeneca to create the best possible conditions to deliver 10 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine by the beginning of August, out of its 31-million-dose order for 2021.

Vietnam pushes vaccination drive amid ‘shocking inequity’ in global distribution

As the vaccination rate is picking up, people in France’s western town of Laval, where Tran Thi Phuong Thao lives, are entering a new phase in the pandemic with a renewed sense of hope.

Eight million Covid-19 vaccine doses to arrive in Vietnam next month

Vietnam will take delivery of around eight million Covid-19 vaccine doses next month and 20-21 million doses in August and September, mainly from AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech, said Deputy Minister of Health Tran Van Thuan.

More Japanese donated COVID-19 vaccine due to arrive in July

The Japanese government has decided to donate an additional one million doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to Vietnam and the consignment is due to arrive in July, said the Ministry of Health (MoH).

Vietnam successfully synthesizes Favipiravir against SARS-CoV-2

The Industry of Chemistry under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology has successfully researched a new method for synthesizing Favipiravir, a prescribed drug against SARS-CoV-2, in the laboratory.

Fifty foreign reporters in Vietnam get vaccinated against COVID-19

Fifty resident foreign reporters and press assistants at foreign press offices in Vietnam have recently got their first COVID-19 vaccine shots, according to the Ministry of Health.

Moderna COVID-19 vaccines approved for emergency use in Vietnam: Health ministry

Vietnam's health ministry has granted conditional approval for the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use.

Nation looks for sources of vaccines amid increasing cases of COVID-19

With the severe fourth wave of infections underway since late April, the number of new cases keeping escalating and the disease has spread further in the country over the past week. 

HCM City residents happy about new vaccination drive

Just after having the first shot of a Covid-19 vaccine, Thuy was informed that she had become the F1 (close contact) of an infection case, but she was not too worried.

 

200,000 people a day to be vaccinated against Covid-19 in Hanoi

Hanoi will organize the largest ever Covid-19 vaccination campaign with three options, with the highest number of vaccinations to reach 200,000 per day.

More than 400,000 people vaccinated against Covid-19 in HCM City

Five days after Vietnam’s biggest city launched the largest-ever vaccination campaign, more than 400,000 people have been vaccinated, said Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health Nguyen Tan Binh at a press conference yesterday.

Law on 'state of emergency' to protect people’s health in pandemic: experts

Vietnam needs to have a law on the state of emergency, which would pave the way for the State to make necessary intervention during the pandemic and protect people’s freedom and lives.

PM: Vietnam must be able to produce COVID-19 vaccines no later than June 2022

PM Pham Minh Chinh has requested accelerating the transfer of vaccine production technology and the testing and production of home-grown vaccine for COVID-19, so that Vietnam will be able to produce COVID-19 vaccines no later than June 2022.

Vietnam wants RoK to assist in COVID-19 recovery: foreign minister

Vietnamese foreign minister Bui Thanh Son has asked for the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s assistance in the COVID-19 fight to promote socio-economic recovery and restore normalcy for people-to-people exchanges.