Vaccine

Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son (L) presents a token of the assistance to the VFF Central Committee (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son on June 17 handed over 6.2 billion VND (270,210 USD) to the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee to support the COVID-19 vaccine fund and the fight against the ravaging pandemic. The sum was donated by overseas Vietnamese (OVs), the Office of the Lao National Assembly, and staff at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam. Addressing the handover ceremony, Son said that the Vietnamese community abroad always pay attention and stand ready to support compatriots at home in the fight against COVID-19 . In addition to the aforementioned sum, OVs and close to 30 organisations and groups in the US, Canada and France, among others, have launched campaigns to support people in Vietnam, especially frontline forces, to combat the pandemic, the minister said. As of June 16, OVs offered about 5.3 billion VND … [Read more...] about OVs support national COVID-19 vaccine fund

Meeting of standing board of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Localities nationwide must conduct COVID-19 vaccination as scheduled and must absolutely avoid slow vaccination rollout , requested the standing board of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control during its meeting on June 18. The meeting was chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, who is also head of the steering committee. The standing board agreed on specific instructions to create favourable conditions for local authorities and businesses to access and purchase vaccines and quickly transport them to Vietnam. The Health Ministry will work with authorized suppliers and Ho Chi Minh City’s administration on the city’s needs for vaccines. Localities and businesses must be cautious when seeking vaccines to avoid the case when the manufacturer commits to selling them but deliver in 2022, not in this year. … [Read more...] about Steering committee requires prompt vaccination

A young man receives a COVID-19 vaccine jab at a hospital in Vientiane (Photo: VNA) Vientiane (VNA) - All people entering Laos, even those who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, still have to follow preventive measures and quarantine for 14 days, announced the country’s Ministry of Health. Director General of the Department of Hygiene and Health Promotion under the Lao Ministry of Health , Phonepaseuth Ounaphom, said that as the World Health Organisation (WHO) has not given any recommendations on reducing quarantine time, the country will continue to apply WHO’s current guidelines. It means that Laos has not considered the implementation of the “vaccine passport”. Meanwhile, people having received two COVID-19 vaccine shots in the country for at least one month are allowed to travel from Vientiane capital to other localities without a two-week quarantine. According to the Health Ministry, Laos reported 13 new COVID-19 cases on June 18, including seven … [Read more...] about Laos has yet to apply “vaccine passport”: Health Ministry

The batch will be preserved at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology for examination before distribution to localities for the third phase of vaccination. The first batch of COVID-19 vaccines arrived the country on April 1. Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said that the ministry has spared no efforts to seek vaccine sources for the nation, and around 110 million doses will be supplied for Vietnam this year, 38.9 million doses of which are from COVAX Facility, 30 million from AstraZeneca, and 31 million from Pfizer/BioNTech. Furthermore, the ministry has registered to buy additional 10 million doses through COVAX under the cost share mechanism. Negotiations are underway to purchase more vaccines from Moderna, Johnson&Johnson, CureVac, Spunik V and Sinopharm, helping diversify vaccine source to serve the locals, he added. Currently, four Vietnamese vaccines are under development, produced by Nagogen Pharmaceutical Biotechnology JSC, the Institute of … [Read more...] about Nearly 1.7 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine arrive in Vietnam

A mass coronavirus inoculation drive with over 800,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses will be carried out in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday at around 1,000 vaccination points, a high-ranking health official has said. Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son made the statement on Thursday when he joined the municipal Pasteur Institute to inspect the storage of 836,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine jabs having been allocated by the central government to the city. These doses, developed by British-Swedish firm AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, are among nearly one million shots of the vaccine the Japanese government donated to Vietnam on Wednesday. This allocation reflected a priority the government and the National Vaccine Steering Board has given to the nine-million-strong city to help it expand the immunization coverage and thereby drive back the increasing COVID-19 spread, which has so far affected the entire southern city, Deputy Minister Son said. The vaccine doses … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh City to kick off largest-ever COVID-19 vaccination drive on weekend