-The first shipment of some 96,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech will arrive in Hanoi on Wednesday, according to the Health Ministry. 

This is part of the 31 million Pfizer doses ordered by the Health Ministry for the year, with planned delivery of 3 million in the third quarter and 28 million in the fourth quarter.

The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine was the first vaccine approved by the WHO for emergency use.

The mainstay of Vietnam’s vaccination drive so far has been AstraZeneca.

As of 4 p.m Monday, nearly 4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been administered in Vietnam. 150 million vaccine doses will be needed to cover 70% of Vietnam’s population this year.

Source: VOV5