VOV.VN - Pfizer/BioNTech’s first consignment containing more than 90,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine known as Comirnaty is due to arrive at Vietnam’s Noi Bai International Airport on July 7, a health official revealed on July 5.
The Ministry of Health is completing procedures to receive the first consignment of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on July 7, said Nguyen Nam Lien, head of the Finance and Planning under the Ministry of Health.
Nam also disclosed that Pfizer is set to deliver approximately 3 million more doses in the third quarter and 27-28 million more doses in the fourth quarter of the year.
In May 2021 the Ministry of Health completed negotiations and inked a deal to purchase 31 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech. A month later it approved Comirnaty for emergency use in Vietnam.
Comirnaty is a vaccine for preventing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in people aged 12 years and older. It contains a molecule called messenger RNA (mRNA) with instructions for producing a protein from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
The vaccine has been approved the World Health Organisation and used widely in the United States and many European countries.
VOV.VN - Vietnam is set to receive three million additional doses of COVID-19 vaccines each from AstraZeneca and Pfizer between now and September.
VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health has approved the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine Comirnaty for emergency use in Vietnam on request from Pfizer Vietnam Co. Ltd.
VOV.VN - Vietnam is set to purchase 31 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from manufacturer Pfizer/BioNtech of the United States under a deal to be signed shortly between the two sides, according to sources from the Ministry of Health (MoH).
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