(VOVWORLD) – A flight transporting 500,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine produced by Sinopharm, China, landed at Noi Bai airport in Hanoi on Sunday.

The Vero Cell vaccine is planned to be used to vaccinate Chinese citizens working in Vietnam, Vietnamese who want to go to China for study, work or business, and people who have needs for vaccine, particularly those living in areas bordering China.

The Vero Cell vaccine was approved for emergency use on June 3.

Source: VOV5