More vaccines via COVAX Facility to arrive in Vietnam in July: UNICEF
More vaccine doses from the COVAX Facility, the global COVID-19 vaccine equity scheme, are scheduled to be delivered in Vietnam in July, UNICEF Representative in Vietnam Rana Flowers has told Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long.
More vaccine doses from the COVAX Facility, the global COVID-19 vaccine equity scheme, are scheduled to be delivered in Vietnam in July. (Photo: UNICEF)
Hanoi (VNA) – More vaccine doses from the COVAXFacility, the global COVID-19 vaccine equity scheme, are scheduled to bedelivered in Vietnam in July, UNICEF Representative in Vietnam RanaFlowers has told Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long.
Flowers and Long met in Hanoi to expedite the delivery ofCOVID-19 vaccines to Vietnam amid the fourth coronavirus wave.
Long said Vietnam is battling the highly transmissibleDelta variant of coronavirus and several decisive measures have been put inplace to control the situation, including more talks with foreign manufacturersand partners for more COVID-19 vaccines and facilitating local development of home-grownvaccines.
One of Vietnam’s priorities now is to soon have enoughCOVID-19 vaccines for mass inoculation, he said, reiterating the request forUNICEF to work with COVAX to speed up delivery of vaccines to Vietnam in thethird quarter, and the country’s commitment to using the vaccines in a fair andeffective manner.
Flowers, for her part, cited a survey conducted by UNICEFand its partners found that about 67 percent of Vietnamese respondents saidthey are ready to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, which is quite high.
She shared concerns over the complicated developments ofthe current fourth wave in the country. She said that 1,910 high-capacity coldchain fridges to store vaccines – supported by Australia’s aid to Vietnam –will be delivered to Vietnam by UNICEF in late July.
UNICEF has also ordered five refrigerated trucks fortransportation of vaccines and the shipment will arrive in August andSeptember, along with some 5 million syringes via air routes.
Regarding expediting COVID-19 vaccine shipments to Vietnamvia the COVAX Facility, the UNICEF official remarked that the following batchwould be delivered as soon as it is approved by the World Health Organisation,scheduled for July.
UNICEF has delivered some 2.5 million doses ofAstraZeneca vaccines to Vietnam from COVAX out of the commitment of nearly 39million doses./.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has urged scientists and representatives of vaccine research and production units to step up research and technological transfer for the domestic production of vaccine against COVID-19 as early as possible.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has sent a document to the Vietnam Air Traffic Management Corporation (VATM), the Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV), and airlines requesting the facilitation of flights transporting COVID-19 vaccines.
Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long proposed that Australia, France, and Switzerland create the conditions needed for Vietnam to access more COVID-19 vaccine sources during separate meetings with the countries’ ambassadors in Hanoi on June 8.
Vietnam is accelerating efforts to secure adequate vaccine supplies amidst a resurgence of COVID-19 infections in the country, said Dr Le Hong Hiep, a Senior Fellow at Singapore-based ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, in a commentary published on fulcrum.sg on June 8.
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To achieve its goal of becoming a developed nation by 2045, Vietnam is prioritising the integration of AI and digital tools into the training of future doctors, said Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Viet Nhung, Dean of Medicine at University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vietnam National University (VNU) Hanoi.
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The PM called for closer, broader, and more effective cooperation with Vietnamese partners, guided by the principles of mutual benefit, joint efforts, shared outcomes, and common development, including promoting stronger public-private partnerships and collaboration with businesses.
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This case marks the ninth fetal cardiac intervention conducted in HCM City, and it was considered the most technically demanding to date due to the fetus’s extremely early gestational age and the severity of the condition as diagnosed with aortic atresia.
The groundbreaking ceremony took place one day after the VNVC Vaccine JS Company and Sanofi Group exchanged cooperation documents on vaccine production technology transfer under the witness of State President Luong Cuong and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Vietnam’s traditional medicine took centre stage at the International Congress Biopharm Nonclinical Development, BioNCiD 2025, held on May 25-26 in the Cuban city of Varadero, amid growing global interest in sustainable healthcare solutions.
Under the agreement, VNVC and Sanofi will gradually implement technology transfers to enable domestic production of several key Sanofi vaccines that are widely used in Vietnam. In addition, Sanofi will support VNVC in training human resources and quality management in vaccine research and manufacturing.
Despite the ongoing global circulation and unpredictable developments of SARS-CoV-2, the World Health Organisation (WHO) hasn’t issued new warnings about COVID-19, said the Ministry of Health.
More vaccine doses from the COVAX Facility, the global COVID-19 vaccine equity scheme, are scheduled to be delivered in Vietnam in July. (Photo: UNICEF)
