VOV.VN - The Vietnamese Government has agreed to buy a further 20 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, as part of the deal for 31 million doses of the vaccine as adopted by the Ministry of Health in May.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted a reception in Hanoi on August 13 for Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Yamada Takio.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City, currently the nation’s largest COVID-19 hotspot, has mapped out a plan to intensify anti-pandemic measures by dividing the next month into two periods, from August 15 to August 30 and from September 1-9 in a bid to bring the pandemic under control by September.

VOV.VN - A further 1.1 million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine arrived on August 13 at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City.

VOV.VN - UN organisations in Vietnam will prioritise cooperating with the country in combating COVID-19 and promoting the transfer of vaccine production technology.

VOV.VN - French President Emmanuel Macron unveiled that France is poised to share a total of 670,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses with Vietnam through the COVAX Facility.

VOV.VN - Overcoming fears, the first pregnant women in Ho Chi Minh City, the largest coronavirus hotspot in Vietnam, have been vaccinated against COVID-19 after the Ministry of Health encouraged this group to get the jab.

VOV.VN - The Ho Chi Minh City’s People Committee has sent an urgent document detailing its plans to purchase five million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from Zuellig Pharma, the Moderna distribution partner in Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Indian firm Vekaria Healthcare LLP and Nanogen Pharmaceutical Biotechnology JSC, the Vietnamese developer of Nano Covax vaccine against COVID-19 have signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) on the transfer of technology to produce the vaccine.

VOV.VN - Vietnam received an additional 494,400 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from the COVAX Facility on August 10, bringing the total number of its sponsored vaccines to over 9.1 million doses.