Vietnam to receive nearly 5.6 million COVID-19 vaccine doses

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.
Vietnam to receive nearly 5.6 million COVID-19 vaccine doses.
Vietnam to receive nearly 5.6 million COVID-19 vaccine doses.

The National Expanded Immunisation Programme on March 9 revealed that, Vietnam will receive 5,657,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine in March and April, all made by AstraZeneca. Of the amount, 4,177,000 doses will be supplied by COVAX Facility via the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), with 1,373,800 doses to arrive on March 25 and another 2,803,200 doses in April.

Meanwhile, 1.48 million doses bought by the Health Ministry via Vietnam Vaccine SJC (VNVC) will also be delivered in April, 2021.

The COVAX, or the Global COVID-19 Vaccine Facility, is a global mechanism for the development, manufacture and procurement of COVID-19 vaccine candidates, facilitating and supporting member countries to access vaccines as they become available, using an allocation framework formulated by WHO.

COVAX has pledged to provide Vietnam with 4.9 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the first half and around 33 million doses in the second half of this year.

Vietnam received the first batch of 117,600 doses of COVID-19 on February 24, and launched its COVID-19 inoculation drive on March 8 morning, administering the AstraZeneca vaccine to medical workers in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and northern Hai Duong province.

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