How Vietnam is storing Covid-19 vaccine
By Ngoc An February 25, 2021 | 02:08 pm GMT+7
Vietnam Vaccine JSC is keeping the very first Covid-19 vaccine doses in a freezer in Ho Chi Minh City while a specific vaccination plan is drawn up.
A container carrying the Covid-19 vaccine produced by AstraZeneca is delivered to the Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) facility of Vietnam Vaccine JSC (VNVC), importer of Covid-19 vaccines to Vietnam.
Ten containers with 117,600 AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine doses arrived at the city’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport on Wednesday morning.
The vaccine doses are part of the first batch of 30 million ordered by Vietnam. The vaccine is developed by British-Swedish firm AstraZeneca in collaboration with Oxford University.
In a meeting with representatives from the municipal People’s Committee
on February 1, Deputy PM Dam stressed that Hanoi faces a high risk of
COVID-19
infection if it does not quickly carry out COVID-19 contact tracing.
He asked the municipal authorities to keep a close watch on the development of
the pandemic and complete the collection of samples in the shortest period of time.
Regarding Hanoi’s recommendations on quarantine for F1 cases and testing for F1
and F2 cases, Dam said the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control will request for support
from the Ministry of Defence.
Tuesday, February 02, 2021, 09:00 GMT+7
A health worker collects samples from a young boy for COVID-19 testing in Hanoi, February 1, 2021. Photo: Nguyen Khanh / Tuoi Tre
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Society The Ministry of Health recorded one local COVID-19 infection in the northern province of Hai Duong on Tuesday morning, raising the country’s tally to 1,851, with 1,460 recoveries and 35 deaths.
Tuesday, February 02, 2021, 16:49 GMT+7
The COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University. Photo: AstraZeneca
Vietnam has granted the conditional approval of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine due to the urgent need for prevention and control of the pandemic.
Deputy Minister of Health Truong Quoc Cuong on Monday signed a decision to approve the conditional import and use of the vaccine, developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University.
According to the decision, this is the first COVID-19 vaccine allowed for usage in Vietnam, which will be imported under the regulation on emergency cases of disease prevention.
The health ministry tasked the Drug Administration of Vietnam with issuing an import license for the AstraZeneca vaccine, while the Administration of Science Technology and Training was requested to make clinical assessment of the vaccine’s safety and immunogenicity.