Vietnam receives 500,000 doses of Vero-Cell vaccine produced by Sinopharm

Some 500,000 doses of Vero-Cell COVID-19 vaccine produced by Sinopharm arrive at Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport on June 20.

Hanoi (VNA) – A flight transporting 500,000 doses of against
produced by Sinopharm arrived in Noi Bai airport in Hanoi on June 20.

The Party
Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations, the Foreign Ministry and
the Health Ministry, in coordination with the Chinese Embassy in Vietnam, received
the vaccine along with 502,400 disposable 1-ml syringes on June 20 afternoon.

Vietnamese Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long (right) and Chinese Ambassador to Vietnam Xiong Bo exchange documents for the handover of the China-donated Vero-Cell vaccine. (Photo: VNA)

The Vero Cell vaccine is planned to be used to vaccinate Chinese
citizens working in Vietnam, Vietnamese who want to go to for study, work
or business, and people who have needs for vaccine, particularly those living
in areas bordering China.

The Vero-Cell vaccine was approved for emergency use on
June 3./.