A batch of 592,100 AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines arrived at the Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City on August 6.
A Covid-19 vaccine store of the Vietnam Vaccine JSC
This is the seventh shipment from a deal for 30 million doses that the Vietnam Vaccine JSC (VNVC) ordered from AstraZeneca under the instructions by the Ministry of Health.
With this batch, Vietnam has received a total of 4,387,100 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine from the contract.
So far, the country has received over 18.5 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, including 11.5 million AstraZeneca doses, over five million Moderna doses, 1.5 million Sinopharm doses, more than 400,000 Pfizer doses, and 12,000 Sputnik V doses.
As of 6.am on August 6, Vietnam had conducted over 8.06 million Covid-19 vaccine shots, with 820,023 people having received two doses.
