The Ministry of Health has approved six Covid-19 vaccines for emergency use in Vietnam, including AstraZeneca, Sputnik V, Pfizer/BioNTech, Sinopharm, and Janssen. So far the country has received over 11.5 million AstraZeneca doses, over five million Moderna, 1.5 million Sinopharm, 746,000 Pfizer, and 12,000 Sputnik V doses.
To date, Vietnam has administered nearly 10 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines. More than 1 million people have received two full shots.
According to the Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long, more supplies of Covid-19 vaccines will be imported in the fourth quarter.
Speaking at an online meeting about Covid-19 prevention on August 2, Long asked local authorities to speed up vaccination procedures. The vaccination progress at locked-down areas must be faster.
The number of vaccines that have arrived in Vietnam in the third quarter may not be much but a large number will arrive in the final quarter. Vietnam will receive 47-50 million doses of Pfizer, he said.
