Acting Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long speaks at the event (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) –
The held a workshop in Hanoi on July 22 to speed up the research and of a vaccine against .
Acting Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said this is the
priority of all countries at present as the pandemic is still developing
complicatedly.
Without a vaccine, it is difficult to bring life back to
normal, he said, adding that so far the number of COVID-19 cases worldwide has
surpassed 15 million with over 600,000 deaths.
To date, Vietnam has
recorded 401 infections, mainly imported. The country has gone through
nearly 100 days without new local transmissions, Long reported.
The pandemic is
curbed well at home; however, social distancing is just a temporary measure to
limit the number of new infections and prevent an outbreak. The most effective
solution at present is a vaccine.
According to Long, Vietnam
is one of the 38 countries in the world that has a vaccine quality management
system meeting the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s standards. Therefore, if
COVID-19 vaccine is successfully produced in the country, it could be exported,
contributing to the prevention of the pandemic in other countries.
He asked manufacturers
and units to continuously study the production of a vaccine against the disease.
At the workshop,
representatives of four domestic manufacturers reported preliminary results and research plans for the production of the vaccine in Vietnam./.
Source: VietnamPlus
