Australia to help Vietnam procure 3.7 million doses of vaccine through Unicef: Envoy

Australian Ambassador to Vietnam Robyn Mudie and Deputy Minister of Health Trương Quốc Cường at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology's vaccine storage. — Photo courtesy of the Australian embassy

HANOI (Vietnam News/Asia News Network): The Ministry of Health on Wednesday (Oct 6) held a symbolic reception ceremony for 300,000 doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine and medical equipment donated by the Australian Government that arrived in the country last week.

The medical equipment included 614,000 N95 and surgical masks, and 40,800 gowns.