Five Covid-19 vaccines approved for emergency use in Vietnam
Vietnam's Health Ministry has granted conditional approval for the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use. The product, Spikevax, is the fifth vaccine to be authorised, following AstraZeneca, Sputnik V, Pfizer, and Sinopharm vaccines.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh proposed the World Health Organization (WHO) support and give priority for Vietnam to soon receive the next batches of COVID-19 vaccines as committed under the COVAX Facility during his phone talks with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on June 24.
There is no discrimination between Vietnamese and foreigners during the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang asserted, stressing that Vietnam’s pandemic prevention and control has been acknowledged by the international community.
The Ministry of Health and the National Council of Ethics in Biomedical Research on June 25 agreed with the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City and the Military Medical University to speed up the third-phase clinical trial of the homegrown COVID-19 vaccine Nano Covax on all the 13,000 volunteers.
The resort island Phu Quoc in southern Vietnam is planning to fully vaccinate its residents against COVID-19 by September to welcome the year-end foreign tourism surge, as part of a vaccine passport pilot programme.