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.
Update: May, 13/2021 - 17:41 |
Officers of the Bạc Liêu Province s military command receive COVID-19 vaccine shots. VNA/VNS Photo Chanh Đa
HÀ NỘI Almost 1.7 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX scheme are expected to arrive in Việt Nam on Sunday, health minister Nguyễn Thanh Long said on Thursday.
The health chief said that the vaccine, supplied by the global vaccine sharing initiative COVAX Facility and delivered by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), will be distributed to all agencies and localities to speed up the national vaccination drive, especially for priority groups.
This is the second batch from COVAX in addition to the shipment of 811,200 doses of AstraZeneca that arrived on April 1.
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Nguyen Thanh Phong, Chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee (centre), inspects hospitals and instructs them to tighten COVID-19 preventive measures since they are high-risk areas. (Photo: VNA)
HCM
City (VNS/VNA) - There have been no more cases of COVID-19 in Ho Chi Minh
City since one person was diagnosed with it at Tan Son Nhat Airport in
February, but the city Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and Department
of Health said the risk of an outbreak remains high.
The risk
is from a number of different sources, according to the centre.
HCM
City has many major hospitals that admit patients from other provinces and