THE first shipment of Covid-19 vaccines from the Covax initiative to Vietnam, which was originally slated for late March, has been delayed until mid-April due to production issues, a Unicef official confirmed.
Rana Flowers, Unicef representative to Vietnam, which is responsible for the procurement, transport, storage and delivery of the vaccines, told Vietnam News on Wednesday that 811,200 Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine doses – fewer than the original plan of 1.1 million doses for late March – were scheduled to arrive in the country in the next three weeks.
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