Viet Nam signs deal to buy 31 million Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses

These doses will be delivered in the third and fourth quarters in 2021, raising the total volume of imported COVID-19 vaccines in the year to 110 million doses.

Viet Nam has received a total of 2,611,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses, including 2,493,600 ones shipped by the COVAX Facility.

More than 1,011,390 frontline workers have been vaccinated between March 8 and May 18, according to the Ministry of Health.

The Government planned to acquire 150 million vaccine doses to cover 70% of the country’s population.

On May 18, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh reiterated that COVID-19 vaccine purchase is an urgent task that must be immediately carried out.

As of mid-May 19, Viet Nam had recorded 4,579 cases of COVID-19, with 2,687 recoveries and 37 deaths.

The national tally includes 3,108 domestically-transmitted infections and 1,471 imported cases.

As many as 1,538 new local infections were detected since the latest outbreak hit the country on April 27./.

By Thuy Dung