Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam became the 53rd country in
the world achieving the goal of covering basic doses of for 70
percent of its population, according to , a website that updates the vaccination
speed worldwide every day.
The website
reported that only 63 out of more than 220 countries and territories which
have provided data on COVID-19 pandemic prevention and control across the world have
achieved this goal.
In Asia, Vietnam’s vaccination speed and quantity are higher
than that of Thailand, Laos, the Philippines, India and Indonesia. Outside of Asia, Vietnam has been lower than the US’s vaccine
coverage by only two grades, but 40 grades higher than Russia.
According
to statistics from the Vietnamese Ministry of Health, over 146 million doses of
vaccines against COVID-19 had been administered to people as of December 27, including
over 77 million of first shots and nearly 66.5 million of second jabs. Vietnam
has counted 2.8 million people getting the third doses so far.
According to Russian news agency Sputnik, thanks to its relentless vaccine diplomacy strategy, from a country with a low rate of vaccine vaccination, Vietnam has become
one of the countries having the rapidest in the world in a short
time.
The vaccine diplomacy, an unprecedented diplomatic strategy in Vietnam’s
history, has been drastically deployed in all activities,
helping Vietnam safely adapt to and effectively control the COVID-19 pandemic,
the news agency said.
Not only
successful in ensuring the supply of COVID-19 vaccine, Vietnam’s vaccine
diplomacy strategy also facilitated the transfer of vaccine production technologies
of other countries to Vietnam, including Sputnik-V of Russia, Abdala of Cuba,
and Covaxin of India, it added./.
Source: VietnamPlus
