Vietnam hopes to produce own Covid-19 vaccines in Q3 as Covax vaccine shipment are delayed to April


A volunteer gets the second shot of Nano Covax Covid-19 vaccine on Thursday (March 25, 2020). - Vietnam Plus/ANN

HANOI, March 24 (Vietnam News/ANN): Vietnam is expected to have the first batch of locally-produced Cvid-19 vaccines at the end of the third quarter of 2021.

The statement was made by Deputy Director of the Department of Science Technology and Training under the Health Ministry, Nguyen Ngo Quang, who is Chief of the Office of the National Programme on Vaccine Research and Development, at a meeting of the Standing Board of the Steering Committee for International Cooperation in Clinical Trials of Covid-19 Vaccines recently.

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