VOV.VN - The Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City has received a delivery of over 800,000 doses of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine in preparation for the country’s largest-ever vaccination campaign, which is set to get underway in the southern city.
Ho Chi Minh City has been asked to work harder to impose restriction measures on the smallest possible scale so as not to prolong large-scale social distancing.
VOV.VN - Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son on June 17 handed over more than VND6.2 billion raised by Vietnamese nationals abroad and some organisations to the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee in support of the national COVID-19 vaccine fund.
VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on June 17 suggested that the World Health Organisation (WHO) help facilitate the delivery of COVAX Facility – sponsored COVID-19 vaccines to Vietnam amid the complex nature of the pandemic locally.
VOV.VN - More than 800,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been transported to the cold storage facility of the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City in preparation for the rollout of a large-scale vaccination campaign.
VOV.VN - National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue said Li Zhanshu, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China, has invited him to visit China at an appropriate time, during their phone talks on June 17.
President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Do Van Chien on June 16 received VND10 billion (some US$431,700) from the Republic of Korea’s Hyosung Vietnam Co. Ltd. to Vietnam’s COVID-19 vaccine fund.
Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Chu Ngoc Anh and Chairwoman of the city’s Fatherland Front Committee Nguyen Lan Huong have called on local organisations, businesses and people to donate to the city’s COVID-19 vaccination programme.
Pfizer vaccine is only supplied via bilateral deals with Governments, said John Paul Pullicino from Pfizer Vietnam during an online training session for market management staff on June 16.
VOV.VN - Nearly one million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, a gift of the Japanese government and people to the government and people of Vietnam, arrived at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi late on June 16.