#COVID-19 vaccine

PSNews – The national COVID-19 vaccine fund had received a total of 10,555.68 billion VND as of October 2022.

PSNews - Vietnam’s Ministry of Health announced that  Australian Government has officially committed to providing Vietnam with about 13.7 million doses of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines to inoculate children aged between 5-11 in the first week of April.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has announced the extension of the shelf-life of the Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine, known as Moderna, by an additional two months.

The Government has agreed to purchase 21.9 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19 for children aged 5-11, according to a Government resolution released recently.

France has presented Vietnam with approximately 1.4 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, raising the number of French-donated vaccine doses to more than 2 million.

All 18 babies aged between 2 and 6 months old are now in stable condition after they were mistakenly given a Pfizer shot on November 3, according to the Hanoi Department of Health.

A local research team working on developing Nano Covax, a homegrown COVID-19 vaccine, have unveiled the promising outcomes of the mid-term phase 3a clinical trials.

The Prime Minister has requested the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to appraise and approve the Hayat-Vax COVID-19 vaccine produced by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for emergency use in Vietnam.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang said amid increasing complicated COVID-19 situation, Vietnam hopes countries and international organisations to increase the sharing of information, technology, finance and medical supplies, especially vaccines, to jointly prevent and control the pandemic and soon bring life back to normal.

PSNews - According to an official of the Health Ministry of Vietnam, Nano Covax, the locally-produced COVID-19 vaccine can only be approved for domestic use based on sufficient scientific data

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam had an online discussion on June 17 with the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for the Western Pacific Takeshi Kasai, who vowed to work for the early delivery of COVID-19 vaccines under the COVAX Facility to Vietnam.

PSNews - One million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines donated by the Japanese Government arrived at Noibai nternational Airport in Hanoi late Wednesday night.

As of May 16, 14 out of 21 airports of the Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) have deployed the COVID-19 vaccination drive for employees who directly contact with passengers, luggage and cargo.

On 16th May, Vietnam received today a second shipment of 1,682,400 COVID-19 vaccine doses from the COVAX facility.

Vietnam is hopeful it can produce its first local COVID-19 vaccine this year, with the third trial phase of trials for the NanoCovax vaccine set to be completed in late September while the COVIVAC vaccine will enter the second phase by the end of June, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).

A total of six volunteers on April 12 were given their second shot of the domestically-produced novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine known as COVIVAC, which is being developed by the Institute of Vaccines and Medical Biologicals (IVAC).

According to the Ministry of Health, as of April 8, all people who have received AstraZeneca vaccine in Vietnam are in safe condition. 

72 first officers, doctors and medical staff of the 198 Hospital under the Ministry of Public Security have been injected with AstraZeneca vaccine by April 7.

The Border Guard Command of Tay Ninh Province in coordination with the 175 Military Hospital on April 1 held a vaccination drive to inject the first doses of COVID-19 vaccines for the border guards in Tay Ninh. 

The first 17 Vietnamese athletes and coaches have received the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on March 30 in Hanoi, ahead of the Tokyo Olympics 2021.