VOV.VN - The Italian Government on September 21 announced its decision to offer a further 796,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses to Vietnam via the Covax global facility to help the nation respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Drug Administration of Vietnam under the Ministry of Health has given the green light to Vimedimex Medi-Pharma JSC to import 30 million doses of the Hayat-Vax vaccine, produced in China and packaged in the UAE.

VOV.VN - The Government has approved a Vietnamese pharmaceutical firm’s proposal to purchase 10 million doses of the Abdala COVID-19 vaccine developed by the Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) in Cuba.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health (MoH) conditionally adopted Cuba’s Abdala COVID-19 vaccine on September 17 for domestic use in Vietnam.

VOV.VN - A batch of 852,480 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine donated by the German government and channeled through the COVAX Facility arrived in Hanoi on September 16.

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 - As of September 14, Vietnam has surpassed a total of 30 million shots of COVID-19 vaccines, according to figures given by the National Vaccine Registration Portal.

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.

Italy’s national emergency service 118 is willing to share experiences in COVID-19 treatment and looks forward to promoting cooperation with Vietnam in research and training for pandemic emergency.

VOV.VN - The Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Health has sent a dispatch to the Ministry of Health (MoH) to request for the approval of narrowing the gap between doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from six weeks to between eight and 12 weeks.