Vietnam grants for COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna. (Photo: AFP/VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Health has granted conditional approval for
, manufactured by Spain’s Rovi Pharma Industrial
Services, S.A and France’s Recipharm Monts, for emergency use in Vietnam.
Under
the approval decision, the vaccine, also known as Spikevax, 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.
Zuellig
Pharma Vietnam Co. Ltd. is in charge of importing and distributing the vaccine
in Vietnam. It must ensure safe delivery of Moderna vaccine in the country, and
cooperate with Vietnamese authorities to check the quality of the vaccine before
use and instruct vaccination centres on how to store, distribute and administer
the vaccine.
This
is the fifth vaccine conditionally authorised for emergency use by the Ministry
of Health, following Oxford/AstraZeneca, Sputnik V, Sinopharm’s Vero-Cell and
Pfizer/BioNTech.
The
country aims to purchase around 150 million doses of vaccines to inoculate
about 70 percent of its population this year.
Close
to 3.5 million doses have been administered in the country as of June 28 morning.
The number of fully vaccinated people totalled 172,944./.
Source: VietnamPlus
