Vietnam to get 31 Million Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses in 2021 as local cases keep rising

Medical officers arriving for work at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi. Vietnam will receive 31 million vaccine doses made by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE this year, the country’s health ministry said on its website.- Vietnam News/ANN

HANOI, May 16 (Bloomberg): Vietnam will receive 31 million vaccine doses made by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE this year, the country’s health ministry said on its website.

The health ministry also registered to buy about 10 million additional doses through Covax, a program backed by WHO and other global health groups, the ministry said. In all, the government so far has wrapped up deals to acquire about 110 million vaccine doses. The ministry did not specify how Vietnam will acquire the Pfizer doses.