Moderna COVID-19 vaccine provided through the COVAX Facility should be used first to vaccinate children aged from six to below 12 years to speed up the inoculation for this age group, according to the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE).
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh suggested the COVAX Facility continue its supply of COVID-19 vaccines to Vietnam, especially vaccines against new variants, during his phone talks with Managing Director of the COVAX Facility Aurélia Nguyen on March 3.
Vietnam and Canada have enjoyed robust collaboration ties in the past years. In a recent interview with the Vietnam News Agency, Canadian Ambassador Deborah Paul has affirmed that despite the raging COVID-19 pandemic, both nations witnessed rosy relations in 2021. Particularly, trade and investment were billed as important locomotives to develop the ties into a new high.
Minister Counsellor Nguyen Phuong Tra, Deputy Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the United Nations (UN), has said that inequity in vaccination against COVID-19, particularly in areas of conflict, may pose a threat to peacebuilding efforts and development achievements in the recent past.
Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on December 12 sent messages of condolences to US President Joe Biden over the losses of human lives and property as recent tornadoes hit the country’s central region, particularly Kentucky state.
Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc spoke highly of the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s coordinating role in addressing global health issues during a meeting with Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghegreyesus at WHO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on November 28.
Vietnam received about 1.4 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine aided by France on November 27 and 28, bringing the total doses offered by the European donor to more than 2 million.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh spoke highly of the important contributions of Vietnamese and French legislatures to the relations between the two countries and cooperation between their localities, at a meeting with French National Assembly President Richard Ferrand on November 4.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh held talks with his French counterpart Jean Castex in Paris on November 3 evening (local time), during which he stressed the importance of the relations with France in Vietnam’s foreign policy.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on November 3 (local time) met with Managing Director of the COVAX Facility Aurélia Nguyen, during which he thanked the COVAX programme for its commitment to providing Vietnam with 38.9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines free of charge in 2021, including nearly 23 million doses delivered to the country.
Rolf Schulze, former German Ambassador to Vietnam, has been elected the new President of the Germany-Vietnam Association at its congress held recently in Berlin.
As of October 18, Vietnam had received 92.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines and administered more than 64 million doses. Results of the vaccination campaign are critical to the safe adaptation to the pandemic.
Responding to the call from Vietnamese Party and State leaders, overseas Vietnamese around the world as well as international friends and organisations have given valuable moral, material and brainpower support to COVID-19 fight in Vietnam, particularly to the country's goal of vaccine coverage.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a ceremony in Hanoi on October 4 to symbolically receive 1.5 million doses of Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from the COVAX Facility with the assistance from the US Government.
President Nguyen Xuan Phuc had a meeting with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in New York on September 24 (local time), during which the two leaders shared delight at the strong growth of the close and trustful relationship between the two countries over the past 45 years.
President Nguyen Xuan Phuc delivered a speech at the Global COVID-19 Summit hosted by US President Joe Biden in New York on September 22 (local time). The following is the full text of the President’s remarks.
The Italian Government on September 21 announced its decision to provide an additional 796,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses for Vietnam via the COVAX Facility mechanism to help the country cope with COVID-19 pandemic.
Indonesia and the Philippines have received more COVID-19 vaccine aid via the COVAX Facility, while Thailand is confident in realising its goal of vaccinating 70 percent of the population.
A batch of 852,480 AstraZeneca vaccine doses arrived in Hanoi on September 16, according to the German Embassy in Vietnam and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
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