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France and Italy have donated nearly 1.5 million doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to aid Vietnam’s fight against the pandemic. Vietnam receives 1.5 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine donated by France and Italy through the COVAX dose-sharing mechanism on September 14 The handover ceremony was held on September 14 at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hanoi with the participation of Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs To Anh Dung, Deputy Minister of Health Tran Van Thuan, French Ambassador to Vietnam Nicolas Warnery, and representatives from the Italian Embassy in Vietnam, the WHO, and the UNICEF. The donated vaccines, which will be provided through the COVAX dose-sharing mechanism, include 672,000 doses from France and 812,060 doses from Italy. Addressing the event, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs To Anh Dung thanked both the French and Italian governments and people for their valuable support, …

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A shipment of 852,480 AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses donated by the German government arrived in Hanoi on Thursday, amid Vietnam’s acceleration of immunization to drive back the pandemic. This is a contribution from Germany toward the Vietnamese vaccination campaign, the German Embassy in Hanoi said in a press release the same day. The donation is part of the 2.5 million AstraZeneca vaccine doses Germany has previously promised to donate to Vietnam. The vaccine jabs were delivered to Vietnam through COVAX Facility, in close cooperation with UNICEF and WHO Vietnam and the Vietnamese government. “I am very happy about this delivery of German vaccines via COVAX," said Dr. Guido Hildner, German Ambassador to Vietnam. "Germany stands with Vietnam in fighting and overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic." The diplomat said Germany and the European Union support the COVAX scheme for fair and transparent access to COVID-19 vaccines worldwide. “We can only defeat the pandemic if it …

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The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health has asked the Ministry of Health for permission to shorten the gap between two doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to six weeks, down from eight to 12 weeks as recommended, in order to expedite inoculation. The proposal was made amidst the complicated development of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ho Chi Minh City, which is the hardest-hit locality in Vietnam with 303,475 local infections, accounting for half of the country’s caseload recorded since the emergence of a new bout on April 27. The city with over 7.2 million adults has administered more than 7.7 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to its people, with the numbers of the first and second shots respectively topping 6.4 million and 1.3 million as of Saturday. Dang Quang Tan, head of the Ministry of Health’s General Department of Preventive Medicine, confirmed on Monday the Ho Chi Minh City health department’s proposal on reducing the interval between two AstraZeneca vaccine doses. While …

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Representatives of the French and Italian governments on Tuesday ceremonially handed over a total of 1.47 million vaccine doses against COVID-19 to Vietnam during a meeting at the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs headquarters in Hanoi. The shipments from France and Italy, respectively consisting of 670,000 and 800,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, had been pledged to Vietnam prior to the meeting and were distributed through COVAX Facility, a global vaccine-sharing scheme. On Tuesday, Nicolas Warnery, French Ambassador to Vietnam, and Paolo Epifani, Charge d'Affaires at the Italian Embassy in Vietnam, handed over the doses to the Vietnamese government in a ceremony joined by To Anh Dung, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, as well as officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Health. The jabs will be promptly distributed to cities and provinces, said Tran Van Thuan, Deputy Minister of Health. Among the European Union (EU) members, France and …

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France provided 672,000 doses and Italy 812,060 doses, according to a press release by UNICEF Vietnam. French Ambassador to Vietnam Nicolas Warnery said France's support aimed to demonstrate its solidarity with Vietnam in the pandemic, a statement echoed by Italian Ambassador to Vietnam Antonio Alessandro, who stated Italy stood close to Vietnam and its people in the fight against Covid-19. At a handover ceremony in Hanoi on Tuesday, Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs To Anh Dung said France and Italy's donations, as well as those via global vaccine access mechanism Covax, were appreciated for ensuring equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines. Vietnam has so far received over 11.7 million Covid-19 vaccine doses via Covax. The country has vaccinated over 30 million people with at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose, and around 5.5 million people have been fully inoculated. Vietnam aims to secure 150 million doses to vaccinate 70 percent of its 96 million population by next …

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The Vietnamese Ministry of Health on Sunday decided to allocate an additional eight million doses of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine to 25 cities and provinces. The doses, made by Chinese firm Sinopharm, are donated by Vietnamese Van Thinh Phat Group. Of the 25 provinces and cities, Hanoi is the biggest recipient with 1.36 million shots, followed by Quang Ninh with 700,000, and 500,000 for each of Ho Chi Minh City, Lang Son Province, Hai Phong City, and Yen Bai Province. The new jabs will help these localities inoculate people with the first and second jabs. Before Sunday’s allocation, 5.5 million Sinopharm vaccine doses had been used to immunize people in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Quang Ninh Province, Hai Phong City, Binh Duong Province, and Dong Nai Province. So far, Vietnam has received approximately 50 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, including 20 million Sinopharm shots, more than six million of which were donated by China and five million were purchased by Ho Chi Minh City, …

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HCMC reduces the interval between Covid-19 vaccine doses to six weeks (Photo: SGGP) Prior, the Department of Health has proposed shortening the interval between the first and second doses of AstraZeneca or Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine doses to six weeks. The proposal was made in an effort to get residents immunized more quickly to improve the vaccination coverage rate. The World Health Organization and the Vietnamese Ministry of Health recommend an interval of 8-12 weeks between the first and second dose. During the first phase of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccination starting in March 2021 in Ho Chi Minh City, doctors from the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City received the two doses of Covid-19 vaccine with an interval of six weeks. According to an assessment, these doctors have been effectively immunized. By Giao Linh - Translated by Uyen Phuong …

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Japan said on Tuesday it will donate an additional 1.3 million AstraZeneca Plc COVID-19 vaccine doses to Taiwan and other Asian neighbours. Taiwan will get 500,000 more doses, bringing Japan’s total donation to the island to 3.9 million, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi told reporters. The latest donation batch will go out as soon as possible, and includes another 400,000 shots for Vietnam, 300,000 for Thailand, and 100,000 to Brunei, Motegi said. To date, Japan has given out more than 23 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine produced in Japan to countries in South Asia and the Pacific islands, he said. Additionally, Japan has pledged $1 billion and 30 million doses to the COVAX programme, overseen by the GAVI alliance and the World Health Organization. Japan has fully vaccinated 50% of its population here, according to government data on Monday. The country has relied mainly on imported mRNA-type vaccines from Pfizer Inc and Moderna Inc for its domestic inoculation …

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The government has accepted a disclaimer for claims related to vaccines and vaccine use as part of the contract, according to a decree issued Tuesday. The Health Ministry will make the purchase. The signing of the contract and the settling of related disputes will be governed by the laws of China. Vietnam has received around 45 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to date, of which Vero Cell, produced by Chinese company Sinopharm, accounts for around 20 million doses. The country has administered 35.6 million Covid-19 doses as of Wednesday. At 6.9 million people, 7.2 percent of the population has been fully vaccinated against the targeted 70 percent. …

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Ho Chi Minh City has officially shortened the interval between two shots of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to at least six weeks, as it is accelerating to reach full immunization coverage for local residents. In a dispatch issued on Friday, the city’s administration approved the Department of Health’s proposal to reduce the interval between the first jab of AstraZeneca vaccine and the second shot of the same type or the Pfizer vaccine, as an alternative, to six weeks from the current gap of 4-12 weeks. Over the past time, the city has complied with the Ministry of Health’s guidance on the intervals between vaccine doses, but the gap may be cut to six weeks for AstraZeneca in special circumstances, as the method has been applied effectively in the city and some other localities, said Dr. Nguyen Hoai Nam, deputy director of the Ho Chi Minh City health department. The department, therefore, proposed shortening the AstraZeneca vaccination interval for all local residents. According …

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