The batch of 1,682,000 doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine from COVAX arrived at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on Sunday. - Vietnam News/ANN
HANOI, May 17 (Vietnam News/ANN): A further 1,682,000 doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine from the global vaccine sharing scheme COVAX arrived in Vietnam on Sunday night (May 16).
The shipment, which arrived at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on a Qatar Airlines flight, was transported to the cold storage facility of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in the city at 8pm.
This shipment comes in addition to the first batch of more than 800,000 doses delivered on April 1 and is part of the 4.1 million free-of-charge doses committed to Vietnam from the COVAX Facility by the end of May (out of the total 30 million doses the country is eligible to receive by the end of 2022), according to a statement from UNICEF.
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