Tag: AstraZeneca
PM orders speeding up COVID-19 vaccinations
VOV.VN - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc asked the Ministry of Health, relevant agencies, and localities on February 24 to ramp up the pace of the nation’s COVID-19 vaccination scheme in an effort to ensure that local people are given protection against the virus.
First COVID-19 vaccine doses arrive in Vietnam on Feb. 24
VOV.VN - A plane carrying more than 117,000 doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine is scheduled to touch down at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport at 10.00am on February 24.
Vietnam moves towards free COVID-19 vaccinations
VOV.VN - In the long term, the nation will take steps to provide free novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines for citizens in the same way it offers vaccines against epidemics in the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI).
Vietnam sets up super-cold storage for COVID-19 vaccines
VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health has licensed the Vietnam Vaccine Joint Stock Company (VNVC) to operate three super-cold storage units to receive novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines.
Questions arise over who will receive first COVID-19 vaccinations
VOV.VN - The initial batch of 204,000 doses of AstraZeneca’s novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine are set to arrive in Vietnam over the coming days, with the focus now turning to which group of people will be prioritised to receive the first doses.
Health Minister underlines primary task of COVID-19 containment in Q1
VOV.VN - The COVID-19 pandemic is not expected to be fully brought under control during the first half of the year, or in the remainder of 2021, with pandemic prevention and control therefore regarded as the top priority in the first quarter and beyond.
Politburo green-lights COVID-19 vaccine imports for domestic use
VOV.VN - The 13th Political Bureau, the supreme policy-making body of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), along with the CPV Secretariat, approved the Government’s plan to purchase COVID-19 vaccines for domestic use, at their first meeting held on February 18 in Hanoi.
Vietnam urgently imports 200,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine
VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health has permitted AstraZeneca Vietnam Co., Ltd. to urgently import a total of 204,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to battle a fresh wave of the coronavirus in the country.
Vietnam set to receive five million COVID-19 vaccine doses in February
VOV.VN - The country will get approximately five million doses of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine by the end of February, including some 4.9 million vaccine doses provided via Covax, a global mechanism for developing, manufacturing, and procuring the COVID-19 vaccine.
COVID-19: An additional 19 community cases detected on Feb. 3 afternoon
VOV.VN - Vietnam confirmed 20 more coronavirus cases, including 19 locally transmitted infections on February 3 afternoon, according to the National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
