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At 10 PM on June 16th, a ceremony was held at Noi Bai International Airport to receive a shipment of nearly 1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine donated by the Japanese government to support Vietnam in combating the COVID-19 pandemic.
Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long receives a batch of Covid-19 vaccines donated by the Japanese Government to Vietnam from the Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam (photo: NLĐ).
This vaccine is called VAEVRIA Intramuscular Injection (also known as AstraZeneca Covid-19 Vaccine Injection), an intramuscular injection solution, with one vial containing 10 doses, each dose 0.5 ml.
Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long stated that Vietnam is the first country in Southeast Asia to receive COVID-19 vaccines from Japan.
At 7:00 AM on June 17th, a batch of Covid-19 vaccines was urgently transported from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City on Vietnam Airlines flight VN207.
A vehicle transporting vaccines into a storage facility at Noi Bai International Airport (photo: NLĐ).
To date, five batches of AstraZeneca vaccines have arrived in Vietnam, totaling nearly 3.9 million doses. The first batch, consisting of 117,600 doses, arrived on February 24th, followed by the second batch of 811,200 doses from Covax on April 1st, and the third batch of 1.682 million doses from Covax on May 16th. The fourth batch of 288,000 doses from VNVC arrived on the evening of May 25th.
In July 2021, the first batch of 31 million doses of Pfizer vaccine will arrive in Vietnam. This information was confirmed by John Paul Pullicino, a representative of Pfizer (USA), during an online training session on distinguishing genuine Pfizer vaccines for all Vietnamese market management forces on the morning of June 16th.
John Paul Pullicino said the pharmaceutical company is finalizing plans to ship and supply vaccines to Vietnam in the third and fourth quarters of this year.
Currently, the vaccine is not commercially available; any commercial transactions involving counterfeit or unauthorized products are prohibited. During the early stages of the pandemic, the pharmaceutical company only communicated directly with governments and provided vaccine doses through their proposed distribution channels and to designated vaccination sites. Pfizer vaccines are shipped only from Belgium, not from China or India, and are not shipped in individual doses.
