Vietnam to get US coronavirus vaccines through COVAX
VOV.VN - Vietnam is one of the countries in the Asia-Pacific region to receive seven million doses of the US-made coronavirus vaccines through the United Nations-run COVAX.
President Joe Biden on June 3 announced that the US will share approximately 25 million of planned 80 million COVID-19 vaccine doses with other countries worldwide.
Biden said in a statement that nearly 19 million doses, or 75% of the total, will be supplied through the COVAX international vaccine sharing programme.
Accordingly, seven million doses will be distributed to India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Maldives, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, Papua New Guinea, Taiwan, and the Pacific islands.
About five million doses will be delivered to African nations, and six million doses will be sent to Latin America and the Caribbean.
The remaining six million doses will go directly to priority areas, the US’s key partners as well as frontline officers of the United Nations.
“We are sharing these doses not to secure favors or extract concessions,” Biden said in the statement. “We are sharing these vaccines to save lives and to lead the world in bringing an end to the pandemic…..”
