Source: Socialist Republic of Vietnam Experts said developing vaccines is a decisive and long-term strategy in disease prevention and control in general and in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in particular. The development of vaccines must be included in the overall strategy of research, technology transfer, and production of vaccines to both proactively preventing and controlling the pandemic, and saving the State budget, they noted. In the strategy, it is necessary to perform synchronously research and transfer of domestic vaccine production technologies, and implement effectively and safely the vaccination campaign. Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit Vietnam, the Politburo, the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat, the Government and the Prime Minister directed the Ministry of Science and Technology to coordinate with relevant ministries and sectors in researching, transferring technology and domestically producing vaccines, especially COVID-19 vaccines.