More than 1.6 million AstraZeneca doses arrive in Vietnam; new doses to be given to worst-hit localities

The batch of 1,682,000 doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine from COVAX arrived at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on Sunday. - Vietnam News/ANN

HANOI, May 17 (Vietnam News/ANN): A further 1,682,000 doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine from the global vaccine sharing scheme COVAX arrived in Vietnam on Sunday night (May 16).

The shipment, which arrived at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on a Qatar Airlines flight, was transported to the cold storage facility of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in the city at 8pm.