>>> Nearly 660,000 AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses arrive in HCM City
>>> WHO to continue shipping more batches of COVID-19 vaccines to Vietnam
The new batch raised the total donations from the global vaccine sharing initiative to the country to more than 8.68 million doses.
Of the total number, there were about 5 million doses of Moderna from the US government and 3.68 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine.
The latest batch was shipped from Laboratorio Universal Farma, a manufacturing facility in Spain, according to UNICEF, one of COVAX’s partners.
To date, Vietnam has administered more than 6.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines. As many as 659,064 people have received two full shots.
COVAX is a global initiative between the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, UNICEF and the World Health Organisation (WHO), to ensure fair and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines.
