COVID-19 vaccines for children aged 5-12 to arrive this weekend

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Hanoi (VNA) – The first nearly one million
doses of COVID-19 vaccines for children aged five to 12, financed by the
, are expected to arrive in Vietnam on April 9.

The inoculation will be conducted following vaccine
assessment, the ese Ministry of Health said.

The second and third batches are scheduled to arrive
in Vietnam on April 13 and 18.

The Vietnamese government has decided to buy 21.9
million doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5-12.

Under , the Government agreed on
the application of contractor selection method in special cases stated in
Article 26 of the Bidding Law during the purchase of the vaccine, which is in line
with relevant regulations.

The government assigned the Ministry of Health to
buy and implement the injection of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to the targeted
children in a safe and efficient manner.

The health ministry has also sent documents to cities
and provinces, providing them with guidelines in the vaccination.

Previously, Vietnam had approved Pfizer/BioNTech and
Moderna for use in children aged 5-11 years old./.