Astra Zeneca vaccine is licensed in Vietnam. – Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Health announced on January 30 that it has approved the use of Astra Zeneca
COVID-19 vaccine for and control in Vietnam.
AstraZeneca COVID-19
vaccine was co-invented by the
UK’s University of Oxford and its spin-out company AstraZeneca. This vaccine is recommended for people aged between
18 – 64.
This is the first COVID-19 vaccine licensed by the Ministry of Health for immunization to prevent COVID-19 caused by the
in Vietnam.
According to Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long, Astra Zeneca pledged to
supply about 30 million doses of vaccine to Vietnam in 2021.
The ministry is working with other partners to increase the number of vaccines
for Vietnam.
Astra Zeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine is expected to be available and injected into Vietnamese
people in the first quarter of this year.
The ministry has also directed domestic vaccine producers to urgently conduct vaccine
research, clinical trials and production.
The ministry said that Nanogen Pharmaceutical
Biotechnology JSC (Nanogen) has completed the first phase of clinical
trial of Nanocovax vaccine in the first phase, and it will carry out the second
phase of trial in early February.
Meanwhile, the Institute of Vaccines and Medical Biologicals (IVAC) in Nha Trang city
began the first phase of trial for Covivax vaccine on January 21, and
the scheme is expected to be completed at the end of February./.
Source: VietnamPlus
