A military officer receives a Covid-19 vaccine shot in Vinh Yen City, the northern province of Vinh Phuc on Tuesday (April 20,2021). - Vietnam News/ANN
HANOI, April 20 (Vietnam News/ANN): The Vietnamese health ministry has announced the decision to divert 110,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines, originally meant for police and army personnel, to local centres for disease control (CDCs) instead.
These are among the 811,200 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines that Vietnam received via COVAX Facility, the global COVID-19 vaccine sharing scheme, on April 1, adding to the 111,000 doses bought from the company that had been used in the first-phase of the inoculation drive.
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