HANOI, Sept 18 (Vietnam News/ANN): Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai on behalf of the government has approved funding to purchase nearly 20 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine BNT162 by Pfizer.
According to the decision, signed on Friday (Sept 17), more than VNĐ2.65 trillion (US$115.95 million) sourced from the national Covid-19 vaccine fund (which to date has about US$378 million in donations) will be used to purchase nearly 20 million doses of the mRNA vaccine and activities related to the administration of the vaccine at the request of the Ministry of Health.