Germany donates four million more vaccine doses to Vietnam
VOV.VN - New German vaccine donations totaling 4,000,230 doses of BioNTech/Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Hanoi at the turn of the year, raising the total number of vaccines supplied Germany to Vietnam to over 10 million doses.
According to details given by the German Embassy in Hanoi, the most recent delivery marks the largest German donation of vaccine doses to Vietnam to date in support of the country’s ongoing vaccination campaign.
German Ambassador to Vietnam, Dr. Guido Hildner, said that Germany would continue its ongoing support to the country in fighting and overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic.
The shipments come amid high numbers of infections and the Omicron variant spreading at a rapid pace worldwide showing that the pandemic is far from defeated. As a result, Germany will continue to show solidarity with Vietnam in 2022 in its fight against the impact of the pandemic, noted the diplomat.
With the latest delivery, Vietnam has received in excess of 51 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines via the COVAX Facility.
The COVAX Facility is being co-led by the WHO, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness and Innovations (CEPI), GAVI - the Vaccine Alliance, and UNICEF as a key delivery partner.
In 2020, Germany co-founded the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT Accelerator). As the second largest donor to the ACT Accelerator, Germany has provided EUR2.2 billion to date. By the beginning of December, 2021, 144 countries and territories were supplied this way, with over 960 million doses of vaccines from AstraZeneca, Johnson and Johnson, Moderna, and BioNTech given out.
