UNICEF Representative in Vietnam Rana Flowers and Representative in Vietnam Kidong Park are present at the airport to receive the . (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The first batch of
vaccine supplied by COVAX Facility through UNICEF arrived at Noi Bai
International Airport in Hanoi on April 1 morning.
The batch contains 811,200 doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Health Do Xuan Tuyen,
UNICEF Representative in Vietnam Rana Flowers and WHO Representative in Vietnam
Kidong Park were present at the airport to receive the vaccine.
The vaccine doses have been immediately transferred
to the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE) for storage,
awaiting the health ministry’s instructions on the allocation of the vaccine to
63 cities and provinces during this month.
Flowers said problems in the production capability
have led to delayed delivery to all COVAX-participating countries, not just
Vietnam.
COVAX has pledged to give Vietnam over 4.17 million vaccine
doses by the end of May.
Vietnam had been promised 30 million doses of the
vaccine under COVAX, a global mechanism for developing, manufacturing and
procuring COVID-19 vaccine that help member countries access vaccines as they
become available.
The remaining batches are scheduled to arrive in the
country by the year-end or early 2022.
All of the doses will be supplied free of charge by
through UNICEF./.
Source: VietnamPlus
