Japanese shipment of Covid-19 AstraZeneca vaccine arrives in Laos


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VIENTIANE, Aug 6 (Vientiane Times/ANN): A new shipment of Covid-19 vaccine donated by the Government of Japan to Laos through the COVAX Facility has arrived in Vientiane.

The 616,820 doses of the Astra Zeneca/Oxford vaccine, manufactured in Japan, will be used to immunise more than 300,000 people in Laos by the end of this year.

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Laos , Covid-19 , Vaccine , COVAX , Japan , AstraZeneca

   

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