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PSNews - A batch of the 5-in-1 (DPT-VGB-Hib) vaccine supported by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) arrived in Hanoi recently.

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

 The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development officially announced that Vietnam has become the first country to develop a commercial vaccine against African swine fever that meets all requirements. 

The Government has agreed with the Ministry of Health (MoH) on the receipt of COVID-19 vaccines donated by foreign governments and supplied by international organisations for children aged from 5 to under 12 years old.

131 volunteers from the communes of Minh Lang, Viet Hung and Bach Thuan in Vu Thu District, Thai Binh Province have received the first shot of Vietnam's homegrown COVIVAC COVID-19 vaccine during its second phase clinical trials.

Vietnam’s national count of COVID-19 cases has crossed the milestone of 10,000 more than a month after the resurgence of the virus began in late April, wreaking havoc on multiple major industrial parks where thousands of factory workers have become infected.

PSNews – 19-8 Hospital under the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) on April 12 continued to carry out the Astra Zeneca vaccination drive for public security officers and soldiers in Hanoi. 

The Ministry of Transport (MoT) has asked the Government to add seafarers and maritime workers to the list of frontline workers to receive COVID-19 vaccinations.

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.

The first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX Facility cannot be delivered to Vietnam as planned in late March as producers are expanding and optimising production process, the Ministry of Health’s Department of Preventive Medicine has said.

PSNews - Six volunteers on March 15 will receive the first doses of COVIVAC, Vietnam’s second COVID-19 vaccine to be trialed on humans, at the Hanoi Medical University.

PSNews -Vietnam will receive 1.38 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine in March and 4.18 million others in April, according to an annoucement of the National Expanded Immunisation Programme.

The Ministry of Science and Technology has said it is intensifying studies serving COVID-19 prevention and control, particularly those on vaccine production.

According to the British Embassy in Hanoi, AstraZeneca and Vietnam Vaccine JSC (VNVC) are partnering to deliver 30 million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to Vietnam, starting from the first half of 2021.