Poland hands over COVID-19 vaccine batch to Vietnam

A batch of 501,600 COVID-19 vaccine doses donated by the Polish Government was handed over to Vietnam at a ceremony held at Warsaw Chopin on August 20.

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Vietnam is the first non-European country to which Poland provides the COVID-19 vaccine and medical equipment.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Poland Nguyen Hung attended the event along with Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Paweł Jabłoński, Polish Deputy Health Minister Anna Goławska and Polish National Strategic Reserve Director Michał Kuczmierowski, stated Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The two Polish Deputy Ministers stressed the importance of the traditional friendship and relationship between Poland and Vietnam, and highly appreciated the valuable assistance from the Vietnamese Government and people, including the Vietnamese community in Poland, in the early days of the coronavirus outbreak in the country.

Therefore, under the current pandemic situation in Vietnam, Poland hoped with the vaccine support, the country would soon overcome its fourth wave and stabilize economic development.

Poland on Aug. 17 announced it would donate more than 501,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines to Vietnam, along with essential medical equipment for the prevention of Covid-19 worth $4 million. Vietnam is the first non-European country to which Poland has given such support.

Vietnam is the first non-European country to which Poland provides the COVID-19 vaccine and medical equipment.

Ambassador Nguyen Hung thanked the Polish Government and people for their valuable assistance, and expressed his belief that the two countries will win the fight against the pandemic together, and the 70-year traditional relationship and multifaceted cooperation between Vietnam and Poland will continue to grow.

Vietnam has received more than 20 million COVID-19 vaccine doses of different kinds, either via government support, the Covax facility or commercial contracts by local firms and the Health Ministry.

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