VOV.VN - Vietnam expects to get access to coronavirus vaccine supplies from the United States to support its national COVID-19 vaccination campaign, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long has said.
VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam was given a second shot of the locally-produced Nano Covax novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine as part of the second stage of human trials on March 26.
VOV.VN - Up to 26 volunteers received their second shots of the Nano Covax novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine on March 25 at the Vietnam Military Medical University in Hanoi as part of the second-stage of human trials to test the domestically-produced vaccine.
VOV.VN - COVAX Facility has announced that the first batch of approximately 811,200 doses of its coronavirus vaccine is due to be delivered to Vietnam in the next three weeks.
VOV.VN - Scientists are speeding up the clinical trials of locally-produced coronavirus vaccines, and the first of its kind is likely to be rolled out by the end of the third quarter of this year.
VOV.VN - Vietnam has so far recorded no blood clot cases after conducting injections of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, while health facilities are set to press ahead with the safe inoculation process.
VOV.VN - Vietnam registered an additional three imported cases of COVID-19 on March 15, raising the overall number of infections nationwide to 2,557, while a total of 2,115 patients have released from hospital after making a full recovery from the virus, according the Ministry of Health.
Vietnam Airlines has offered to transport domestically free of charge 5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine (11.5 tonnes) supplied by COVAX Facility - a mechanism set up by the World Health Organization (WHO), from March 15.
VOV.VN - Despite there being no vaccine that is 100% effective against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), it still represents an essential, proactive, and effective preventive measure that will certainly reduce the spread of the disease providing that 100% of people are vaccinated.
VOV.VN - Vietnam is expected to get 5.657 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 in March and April, with most of them to be delivered by the COVAX Facility.