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Thailand's Ministry of Public Health on October 12 launched a campaign to vaccinate children aged 6 months to 1 year with a slightly reduced dose of the Pfizer vaccine.

The Lao Ministry of Health has launched a COVID-19 vaccination drive for children at the age of five with the aim of getting 80% of its population vaccinated against the disease within this year.

Children aged between 5 and 11 in Vietnam will be administered with Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine with a dosage of 0.2ml, according to the Ministry of Health.

Director General of the Malaysian Health Ministry Noor Hisham Abdullah said on January 6 that the Drug Control Authority (DCA) of the country has given conditional approval for Pfizer-BioNTech’s Comirnaty jab for children aged between 5 and 11 years old.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of National Defense and Chairman of the National Committee for Organising the 32nd SEA Games 2023 (CAMSOC) to examine the possibility of administering the fourth COVID-19 vaccine dose to athletes with Pfizer vaccine.

Vietnam has signed purchase deals or received donations for nearly 211 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, with 156.4 million already arrived as of December 10, 2021, according to the Ministry of Health.

Dr Kidong Park, WHO representative in Vietnam, gave an interview on the WHO’s opinion on the grounds for increasing the shelf life of Pfizer vaccine and recommendations for Vietnam about the use of Pfizer vaccine with an increased shelf life to 9 months in vaccination, especially for children.

The Vietnamese Government has consented to purchase another nearly 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine BNT 162 by Pfizer.

About 47-50 million doses of Pfizer vaccine will arrive in Vietnam in the last quarter, said Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long.

Vietnam has learned many lessons during the unprecedented fight against COVID-19.

4,185,623 COVID-19 vaccine shots were injected in Vietnam from March 8 to July 15, 2021, according to the Vietnamese Ministry of Health.

The first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer Biopharmaceutical is likely to arrive in Vietnam in July, according to a representative from the US drug maker.

Pfizer vaccine is only supplied via bilateral deals with Governments, said John Paul Pullicino from Pfizer Vietnam during an online training session for market management staff on June 16.

Laos's health authorities are rolling out the second round of vaccination.

Vietnam is expected to get 31 million COVID-19 vaccine doses developed by US-based firm Pfizer in the third and fourth quarters of 2021, said the Ministry of Health (MoH).