Hanoi (VNA) – A batch of 852,480 AstraZeneca vaccine doses arrivedin Hanoi on September 16, according to the German Embassy in Vietnam and the UnitedNations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
The batch of vaccine wasdonated by the German Government to Vietnam via the COVAX Facility with close collaboration among the UNICEF, the World Health Organisation (WHO)and the Vietnamese Government.
German Ambassador to Vietnam Guido Hildner affirmed that Germany always stands sideby side with Vietnam in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic.Germany and the European Union support the global campaign for fair andtransparent access to vaccines via the COVAX Facility, he added.
United Nations Resident Coordinator ad interim and WHO Representative inVietnam Dr. Kidong Park thanked the German Government and people for sharing the vaccine with the Vietnamese people through the COVAX Facility.
He expressed his support for the VietnameseGovernment’s policy of giving priority to vaccinating medical and frontline workers, the elderly, those with underlyingdiseases and those with the highest risk of contracting serious illness or death.
With the new batch, Vietnam received 12,578,110 vaccine doses via the COVAXFacility – a joint effort among the WHO, the Coalition for EpidemicPreparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the Global Alliance forVaccines (GAVI) with UNICEF as a key delivery partner.
By the year-end,Germany is scheduled to provide 100 million vaccine doses to developing and emergingcountries while the European Union will offer at least 200 million doses. Sofar, the European country has delivered over 8 million AstraZeneca doses to the COVAX Facility./.