Moderna COVID-19 vaccine (Photo: Reuters)Hanoi (VNA) – Two million doses of , assisted
by the US, are scheduled to arrive in Vietnam this weekend, the
announced on July 8.
This is part of the 80 million doses that US President Joe
Biden has committed to supporting the world, and they are the first doses sent
to Southeast Asia.
Moderna, also known as Spikevax, was approved by the World
Health Organisation (WHO) on April 30.
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health granted conditional approval for the vaccine
for emergency use in the country in late June.
Under the approval decision, the vaccine comes in doses of
0.5ml of mRNA molecules protected by lipid nanoparticles SM-102. It is supplied
in a carton of 10 multiple-dose vials, with each vial containing 10 doses.
This is the fifth vaccine conditionally authorised for
emergency e by the ministry, following Oxford/AstraZeneca, Sputnik V,
Sinopharm’s Vero-Cell and Pfizer/BioNTech.
As of July 7, Vietnam had administered over 3.96 million
vaccine doses.
The country has to date received nearly 5 million doses,
including nearly 2.5 million doses committed by COVAX, and 2 million presented
by other governments./.
Source: VietnamPlus
