At 10:00 p.m. on June 16, at Noi Bai International Airport, a ceremony was held to receive nearly 1 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine from the Japanese Government to support Vietnam in preventing the Covid-19 epidemic.
Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long received 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 (another name is Covid-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca Injection), intramuscular injection solution, 1 vial contains 10 doses, each dose 0.5 ml.
Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said Vietnam is the first country in Southeast Asia to receive Covid-19 vaccine aid from Japan.
At 7:00 a.m. on June 17, a batch of Covid-19 vaccines was rushed from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City on Vietnam Airlines flight number VN207.
Vehicles transporting vaccines to the warehouse at Noi Bai International Airport (photo: NLĐ).
To date, 5 batches of AstraZeneca vaccine have arrived in Vietnam with a total of nearly 3.9 million doses. Of which, the first batch of VNVC with 117,600 doses arrived on February 24, the second batch of Covax arrived on April 1 with 811,200 doses, the third batch of Covax arrived on May 16 with 1.682 million doses. The fourth batch of 288,000 doses of VNVC arrived on the evening of May 25.
In July 2021, the first batch of 31 million doses of Pfizer vaccine will arrive in Vietnam. The information was confirmed by the representative of Pfizer (USA) John Paul Pullicino during an online training session on distinguishing genuine Pfizer vaccines for the entire Vietnamese market management force on the morning of June 16.
Mr. John Paul Pullicino said the pharmaceutical company is finalizing plans to transport and supply vaccines to Vietnam in the third and fourth quarters of this year.
Currently, the vaccine is not commercially available, any commercial transactions are counterfeit or counterfeit products. In the early stages of the pandemic, the pharmaceutical company only communicated directly with national governments and will deliver doses through their proposed distribution channels and to pre-determined vaccination sites. The Pfizer vaccine is only shipped from Belgium, not from China or India, and not in individual doses.
