VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has requested that the Ministry of Health immediately transfer rapid antigen test kits to Ho Chi Minh City in order to boost extensive COVID-19 testing, while taking a fact-finding trip to the southern city on June 26.
VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health has agreed to complete the third and final testing phase of the Nano Covax, a locally-made COVID-19 vaccine developed by Nanogen Pharmaceutical Biotechnology JSC by the middle of August.
VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh suggested the World Health Organization (WHO) support and give priority to Vietnam, thus enabling it to soon get the next batches of COVID-19 vaccines as committed under the COVAX Facility.
VOV.VN - Vietnamese competent agencies are in the process of negotiating with their US counterparts as well as the COVAX (COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access) Facility in order to receive COVID-19 vaccines as swiftly as possible.
The Prime Minister has decided to add VND11.58 billion (US$500,000) from the central budget reserve in 2021 to the Ministry of Health to make contributions to the COVAX (COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access) Facility.
Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son on June 23 attended the Asia and Pacific High-level Conference on Belt and Road Cooperation at the invitation of China State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health (MoH) will license Nano Covax, the locally-produced COVID-19 vaccine, for domestic use in the event that the vaccine gathers full scientific data, according to a MoH official.
Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Quoc Dung affirmed that enhancing cooperation to push back COVID-19 and promote comprehensive recovery remains the top priority, while addressing the ASEAN Plus Three Senior Officials’ Meeting held in the form of video conference on June 22.
VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh has proposed the UK Government further facilitate Vietnam's access to COVID-19 vaccine supplies and consider transferring its vaccine production technology to the Southeast Asian nation.
VOV.VN - The Vietnamese Nanogen Pharmaceutical Biotechnology JSC have stated that it will be able to produce 100 million doses of the locally-made Nano Covax vaccine annually, with each dose costing between VND130,000 and VND230,000, equal to between US$5.30 and US$10.