HANOI (Reuters): Vietnam's health ministry called for the acceleration of its Covid-19 vaccine rollout on Friday (April 16) as the expiry date of the Southeast Asian country's first batch of jabs supplied through the Covax scheme fast approaches.
Since it began its vaccination programme last month, Vietnam has inoculated around 73,000 people despite receiving nearly one million AstraZeneca doses, 800,000 of which were obtained via the Covax vaccine-sharing scheme.
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