#AstraZeneca

Vietnam expects drug maker AstraZeneca will continue to provide new generation COVID-19 vaccines and drugs to Vietnam to increase its protection capacity against new strains.

PSNews - Recently, the Hanoi Municipal Department of Health has agreed to reduce the waiting time between two AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine shots to four weeks from eight, aiming to expedite inoculation

The Argentine Government on November 11 announced its decision to donate Vietnam 500,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in a nearly 1 million dose package for 5 countries around the world.

A batch of 500,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine donated by the Japanese Government arrived at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City on October 23.

The Ministry of Health on October 15 received nearly 2 million doses of COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine presented by Poland and the Republic of Korea (RoK) to help Vietnam battle against the pandemic.

A total of 400,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine donated by Japan are scheduled to arrive at Tan Son Nhat International Airport on September 25, according to Japanese Embassy in Hanoi.

The Italian Government on September 21 announced its decision to offer a further 796,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses to Vietnam via the Covax global facility to help the nation respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Three batches of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, consisting of a total of 2,016,460 doses, touched down in Ho Chi Minh City by air on September 1.

PSNews - Recently, the Romanian Government handed over Vietnam 300,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Vietnam, triple the volume committed earlier, with the aim of helping the latter cope with the pandemic.

The Vietnam Vaccine Joint Stock Company (VNVC) handed over 1.2 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to the representative agency of the Health Ministry in Ho Chi Minh City on August 22, after 3 days of quality checking.

An additional 1.2 million doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in Vietnam under an ongoing contract between a Vietnamese firm and the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company amid the country’s heightened fight against COVID-19.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh asked CEO of AstraZeneca Pascal Soriot to speed up vaccine delivery to Vietnam during a virtual phone conversation held on August 19.

The Polish Government has decided to offer more than 501,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, transfer an additional 3 million doses and donate medical supplies worth US$4 million to Vietnam.

PSNews - After completing the quality inspection procedure, the Vietnam Vaccine Company (VNVC) on August 16 handed over 1,113,400 doses of AstraZeneca to Pasteur Institute of Ho Chi Minh City, a representative of the Ministry of Health of Vietnam.

Vietnam received an additional 494,400 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from the COVAX Facility on August 10, bringing the total number of its sponsored vaccines to over 9.1 million doses.

PSNews - Amid COVID-19 pandemic, the Czech Republic and the U.K. have promised donations of 250,000 and 415,000  doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Vietnam, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam. 

This week Vietnam is expected to receive three million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine donated by the United States and another one million doses purchased from Oxford/AstraZeneca.

As many as 921,400 AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses arrived at Ho Chi Minh City-based Tan Son Nhat International Airport on Thursday morning.

AstraZeneca delivered more than 920,000 doses of its COVID-19 vaccine on July 15 morning to the Vietnam Vaccine Joint Stock Company (VNVC), a local private firm that has been authorised by the Ministry of Health to import COVID-19 vaccines.

The Vietnam Vaccine Joint Stock Company (VNVC) on July 9 received an additional 580,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca.