Additional 6 million doses of AstraZeneca, Pfizer vaccines to arrive in Vietnam in Q3

HANOI, June 16 (Bernama): Six million more doses of Covid19 vaccines - half from the UK’s AstraZeneca and half from the US’s Pfizer - will arrive in Vietnam in the third quarter of this year, reported VNA, quoting the Ministry of Health on June 15.

Vietnam will receive about 1 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine via the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) Facility sometime between late June and early July, said Prof. Dang Duc Anh, Director of the National Institute of Epidemiology and Hygiene (NIHE).