800,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses from COVAX arrive in Vietnam
(VOVWORLD) - The first batch of 811,200 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine via the COVAX Facility arrived in Vietnam on Thursday.
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Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Health Do Xuan Tuyen, UNICEF Representative in Vietnam Rana Flowers, and WHO Representative in Vietnam Kidong Park, were present at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi to witness the arrival of the vaccine.
The vaccine doses will be transported to cold storage at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in Hanoi. The Vietnamese health ministry will be responsible for distributing the vaccines to be used in all 63 cities and provinces of the country.
COVAX is still committed to delivering nearly 4.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine out of the 30 million allocated for Vietnam in a different shipment by the end of May, and the remainder to be shipped by the end of 2021 and early 2022.