(VOVWORLD) - A batch of 592,100 AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines secured via commercial contract by Vietnam Vaccine JSC (VNVC) arrived at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday.
 Vaccine AstraZeneca (Photo: Reuters)
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This marks the seventh shipment from a deal for 30 million doses that the Ministry of Health ordered from AstraZeneca through the private company VNVC.
At present, a total of nearly 4,4 million doses of the contracted amount have arrived in the nation.
So far, Vietnam has received 18.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, including 11.5 million AstraZeneca doses, over five million Moderna doses, 1.5 million Sinopharm doses, more than 400,000 Pfizer doses, and 12,000 Sputnik V doses.
By Friday morning, nearly eight million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered, with over 820,000 people receiving two jabs.