VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health has confirmed to the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) about the fairness of access for the local population to COVID-19 vaccines following the first batch of the vaccines arriving in the nation.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

VOV.VN - The second phase of trial injections for Nano Covax, the locally-produced COVID-19 vaccine, will be conducted on over 560 volunteers aged between 18 and 65, with the first trial shot being carried out on February 26, according to Nguyen Ngo Quang, deputy head of the Department of Science-Technology and Training.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has called for closer international cooperation to effectively deal with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and vaccinate global citizens, while addressing an online UN Security Council session on February 17.

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.