Vietnam receives  nearly 2 million more Covid-19 vaccine doses donated by the US

October 13, 2021 - 03:40 PM

An additional 1,999,530 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine have just been sent to Vietnam as gifts from the United States to assist Vietnam in its fight against Covid-19.

Vietnam receives  nearly 2 million more Covid-19 vaccine doses donated by the US between October 7-13

According to the US Embassy in Hanoi, these vaccine doses were delivered by COVAX directly from the Pfizer manufacturing plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan. A total of 1,209,780 doses arrived in two deliveries to Ho Chi Minh City on October 7 and October 8 and a total of 789,750 doses arrived in two deliveries to Hanoi on October 8 and October 13.

This follows four previous COVAX deliveries to Vietnam totaling 7.5 million vaccine doses made available by the US, bringing the total to 9.5 million Covid-19 vaccine doses so far, and more is planned.

The United States and Vietnam have continued to build on our longstanding cooperation with nearly USD1 billion US government investment in Vietnam’s health infrastructure to strengthen Vietnam’s capacity to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition, the United States has committed more than USD26.7 million in Covid-19 related assistance to Vietnam since the start of the pandemic.

At the Global COVID-⁠19 Summit on September 22, US President Joe Biden announced a commitment to provide an additional 500 million Pfizer doses, bringing the US total commitment to more than 1.1 billion doses.

Worldwide, the United States has provided more than 175 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to more than 100 countries.

Source: dtinews.vn

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