UNICEF Representative in Vietnam Rana Flowers and WHO Representative in Vietnam Kidong Park are present at the airport to receive the vaccine. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The first batch of COVID-19vaccine supplied by COVAX Facility through UNICEF arrived at Noi BaiInternational Airport in Hanoi on April 1 morning.
The batch contains 811,200 doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Health Do Xuan Tuyen,UNICEF Representative in Vietnam Rana Flowers and WHO Representative in VietnamKidong Park were present at the airport to receive the vaccine.
The vaccine doses have been immediately transferredto the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE) for storage,awaiting the health ministry’s instructions on the allocation of the vaccine to63 cities and provinces during this month.
Flowers said problems in the production capabilityhave led to delayed delivery to all COVAX-participating countries, not justVietnam.
COVAX has pledged to give Vietnam over 4.17 million vaccinedoses by the end of May.
Vietnam had been promised 30 million doses of thevaccine under COVAX, a global mechanism for developing, manufacturing andprocuring COVID-19 vaccine that help member countries access vaccines as theybecome available.
The remaining batches are scheduled to arrive in thecountry by the year-end or early 2022.
All of the doses will be supplied free of charge byCOVAX through UNICEF./.
VNA
