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Gov’t leader requests accelerated COVID-19 vaccination, drug production

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a meeting on December 5 with ministries, sectors, and relevant sides to discuss COVID-19 vaccine and drug development, production technology transfer, and import.
Gov’t leader requests accelerated COVID-19 vaccination, drug production ảnh 1Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chairs the meeting in Hanoi on December 5 (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) –Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a meeting on December 5 with ministries,sectors, and relevant sides to discuss COVID-19 vaccine and drug development,production technology transfer, and import.

The Ministry of Healthreported that Vietnam has received and is set to receive about 211 milliondoses of COVID-19 vaccines under purchase and assistance agreements by the endof 2021, including over 150 million doses already delivered by late December 3.

The country is transferringdevelopment technologies and testing several vaccines, including Nanocovax,COVIVAC, ARCT-154, HIPRA, Sputnik V, Shionogi, and others of Cuba and India.

At the same time, theresearch on COVID-19 drugs has been carried out since 2020, the ministry said,noting that six domestic factories have applied for licence to produce COVID-19drugs with manufacturing capacity totaling at least 1 million doses per day. Ifpermitted, they are able to meet the domestic demand for Molnupiravir fortreatment.

Participants in themeeting looked into the vaccine demand and supply, the vaccination for eachgroup, the demand for COVID-19 drugs and production capacity, relateddifficulties, and mechanisms for vaccine and drug import and production toserve the pandemic fight.

Prime Minister Chinh stressed that the vaccine strategy has proved fruitful, with 94 percentof the target group given at least one dose of vaccine and 69 percent thesecond dose.

Relevant agencies haveto strive to have all people aged 18 and above fully vaccinated againstCOVID-19 by December 15.

He pointed out the needto make a roadmap for administering the third dose of vaccine, firstly tothose aged 50 and above, priority groups, and others as requested by eachlocality. The vaccination for people aged 12 - 18 should also be accelerated.

Regarding COVID-19drugs, the PM asked the Health Ministry to assist domestic producers and createthe best possible conditions for the manufacturing for the sake of people’shealth./.
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