VOV.VN - Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on September 20 suggested that the COVAX Facility prioritize quick allocation of the internationally committed vaccines to Vietnam to help it combat COVID-19.

The National Ethics Committee in Biomedical Research under the Ministry of Health on September 19 issued a press statement on its conclusions of a meeting one day earlier during which it looked into the mid-term phase 3 trial’s results of homegrown COVID-19 vaccine Nano Covax.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s visit to Cuba, attendance at a general debate of the United Nations General Assembly’s 76th session, and bilateral activities in the US aim to demonstrate Vietnam as a friend and trustworthy partner of the international community.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has suggested Austria transfer its redundant vaccines to Vietnam and cooperate in transferring COVID-19 vaccine production technology and treatment drug.

VOV.VN - As many as 81 volunteers were given their second jab of the locally-produced Covivac vaccine on September 15 as it entered the second phase of human clinical trials.

VOV.VN - By the end of this year Vietnam will have at least one locally-produced COVID-19 vaccine which will be licensed and inoculated for local people from the start of early 2022, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).

VOV.VN - France and Italy have presented approximately 1.5 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine via the COVAX Facility to aid Vietnam’s ongoing fight against the pandemic.

Belgium’s biotechnology company Univercells can access and provide vaccines for Southeast Asia in particular and Asia at large through cooperation in Vietnam, Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien has affirmed.

VOV.VN - The European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (EuroCham) has announced that it has worked with EU diplomats to affirm that Vietnam should be among the developing countries with the highest priority to receive vaccines from COVAX.

VOV.VN - Vietnam attaches great importance to developing cooperative relations with Belgium, an important member of the EU, and wishes to strengthen comprehensive cooperation in all fields and through all channels, says National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue.