Vietnam has just received additional 2.6 million doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine from the US through the COVAX Facility, raising the total number of US donated vaccine to Vietnam to 12.1 million doses.
The US Embassy in Vietnam on Sunday announced that COVAX has just sent additional 2,633,670 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine donated by the US to support Vietnam's Covid-19 vaccine fight.
On the evening of October 24, 1,316,250 doses arrived at Noi Bai International Airport.
A batch of Covid-19 vaccine donated to Vietnam by the US through the Covax Facility arrives at Noi Bai Airprort in Hanoi on July 10. Photo by UNICEF
Earlier the US had sent 9.5 million doses through COVAX Facility.
These doses were shipped from Belgium to Vietnam, while the shipment earlier this month came directly from the Pfizer manufacturing plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Most recently, the US delivered nearly 400,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to Vietnam on October 13.