Vietnam to approve new Covid-19 vaccine

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked the Ministry of Health to check and approve the use of Hayat Vax Covid-19 vaccine in Vietnam.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked the Ministry of Health to check and approve the use of Hayat Vax Covid-19 vaccine in Vietnam.

  

Vietnam to approve Hayat Vax Vaccine

Vimedimex Pharmaceutical JSC has sent a document to the Government Office, asking the PM to urgently approve the use of Hayat Vax in Vietnam.

The PM has asked the Ministry of Health to check, approve and roll out vaccination programmes using the vaccine. The Ministry of Finance was asked to speed up negotiation tasks for more vaccines.

Hayat Vax is produced in the United Arab Emirates and has been tested on adults with an efficacy of 79%. The second dose will be given 14 days after the first one.

The Ministry of Health has so far approved six vaccines including AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, Vero Cell and Sputnik V. The four vaccines that are currently included in free vaccination programmes are AstraZeneca, Moderna, Pfizer and Vero Cell.

Over 16.3 million doses of vaccines have been administered so far in the country. A total of 1.63 million people have been given two doses. The country aims to vaccinate 75% of the population by early 2022.