A medical worker handles a dose of the AstraZeneca vacine (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Buying vaccines
is a necessary and urgent task that must be carried out immediately, Prime
Minister Pham Minh Chinh told permanent Government members who met on May 17 to
discuss the purchase of Pfizer vaccine.
Reporting the (MoH)’s plan to
buy the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said the Vietnamese side must
reply to the company on May 18 at the latest.
PM Chinh said procuring COVID-19 vaccines is
necessary and urgent as stated by the Politburo and the Party Central Committee’s
Secretariat in Official Dispatch No. 50-CV/TW, dated February 19, and the Government
in Resolution No. 21/NQ-CP, issued on February 26.
addresses the meeting on May 17 (Photo: VNA)In the spirit of “combating the pandemic is like
combating the enemy” and facing the global shortage of , he
requested the MoH and other ministries and sectors to uphold their sense of
responsibility to carry out measures to obtain vaccines as soon as possible.
As this is an emergency situation, the vaccine
procurement must be handled in line with legal regulations on special and
urgent circumstances and conducted immediately, the Government leader added.
As of 6am on May 18, Vietnam had recorded 4,378
cases of COVID-19, with 2,668 recoveries and 37 deaths. They include 2,909
domestically-transmitted infections and 1,469 imported ones. As many as 1,339
new local infections were detected since the latest outbreak hit the country on
April 27./.
Source: VietnamPlus
