"To win against the pandemic, vaccine access needs to be global and equitable. That is why France has just shared 670,000 vaccine doses with Vietnam as part of the Covax program," French president Emmanuel Macron tweeted.

A ride-hailing app driver receives a Covid-19 vaccine shot in HCMC's District 11, August 2, 2021.

Hungary government on Wednesday announced to gift Vietnam 100,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine and 100,000 Covid-19 rapid test kits, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

The support adds to similar assistance provided by several countries and international organizations, including the U.S. and the WHO.

Since the fourth wave hit on April 27, Vietnam has recorded 242,552 infections in 62 cities and provinces.

The country has vaccinated over 12 million people with at least one Covid-19 vaccine shot. Over one million have been fully vaccinated.

Vietnam aims to cover 70 percent of its 96 million population with around 150 million vaccine doses by next year.

HCMC to receive 600,000 more Covid-19 vaccine doses

Ho Chi Minh City will receive 600,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses from Pasteur Institute to continue mass inoculation.

HCMC nearly out of allocated Covid-19 vaccine doses

The current speed of vaccination can see HCMC run out of the Covid-19 vaccine doses that the Ministry of Health has allocated to the city.

Urgent meeting held to evaluate homegrown Covid-19 vaccine Nano Covax

The National Ethics Committee in Biomedical Research under the Ministry of Health on August 7 held an urgent online meeting to review the results of the first phase of clinical trials of Vietnam’s domestically developed Covid-19 vaccine, Nano Covax, and to pass the mid-term assessment of its second phase.

Nearly 600,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses arrive in HCMC

592,100 AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine doses arrived in HCMC's Tan Son Nhat International Airport Friday morning per VNVC contract.

Vietnam’s health ministry issues guidelines on mixing two vaccines

The Ministry of Health (MOH) has advised giving the same Covid-19 vaccine for the second dose as was used for the first one, as recommended by the World Health Organisation.

Source: VnExpress