Over 1.2 million more doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine arrive in HCM City

Hanoi (VNA) – A total of 1,228,500 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine arrived in Ho Chi
Minh City on July 23 morning.

This is the fifth and also the biggest shipment of the
deal to purchase 30 million doses signed between AstraZeneca Vietnam and the Vietnam Vaccine Joint Stock
Company () with support from the Ministry of Health.

To date, over 3.1 million doses of the contract have delivered to Vietnam. The amount accounted for approximately 37 percent of the  AstraZeneca vaccine volume Vietnam has received, with the remainder coming from the COVAX Facility or donated by other countries.

Nitin Kapoor, President for Asia Area Frontier Markets at
AstraZeneca who is also Chairman and General Director of Vietnam, said the amount
of the vaccine brought to Vietnam in July 2021 shows AstraZeneca’s efforts to
accelerate its supply to support Vietnam’s fight against the pandemic.

In total, nearly 8.6 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine
have been delivered to Vietnam, accounting for 76 percent of the country’s
volume.

He vowed that the company will continue its cooperation with the Vietnamese Ministry of Health, the World Health Organisation (WHO), the UN
Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the VNVC to quickly and safely transport the
vaccine to Vietnam.

AstraZeneca was the first vaccine to have obtained
authorisation for emergency use in Vietnam./.