The first batch of COVID-19 vacc
The first batch of COVID-19 vaccine arrives in Vietnam
The first batch of 117,600 doses of COVID-19 vaccine produced by AstraZeneca
arrived at Tan Son Nhat airport, Ho Chi Minh City.
30 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine will be imported to Vietnam
in
the first half of 2021
After arriving at Tan Son Nhat International Airport, the batch will be stored
in the dedicated cold storage system of Vietnam Vaccine JSC (VNVC) and
AstraZeneca in Ho Chi Minh City.
The batch arrived in Vietnam earlier than originally expected in February.
Therefore, the implementation plan for COVID-19 vaccination was also completed
for March 2021.
The batch is among 30 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine VNVC ordered in 2021.
Other doses will be delivered to Vietnam in batches.
In addition, the COVAX global vaccine alliance will aid Vietnam with about 4.9
million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines in the first and second quarters, and 33
million more doses in the third quarter.
VNVC is in charge of importing this vaccine. It is also the only company
eligible to be licensed by the Ministry of Health (MoH) to import vaccines,
under the emergency anti-epidemic mechanism.
According to the plan of the MoH, the first batch of COVID-19 vaccine will be
given to 11 priority groups, consisting of medical workers and staff
participating in COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control.
“Human resources and facilities are readily prepared to serve up to 4 million
doses of COVID-19 vaccine per month, as well as ensure safe injections”, Bui Kim
Khanh, director of VNVC said.
After the arrival of the first batch of vaccines, VNVC will bring to Vietnam 30
million doses of COVID-19 vaccine of AstraZeneca in the first half of 2021.
Priority groups and people in the country will be officially vaccinated with
high quality COVID-19 vaccine such as the ones used in Europe and many major
countries in the world, contributing to controlling the panpidemic, and
gradually restoring the economy.
Source: VIR