Specifically, the Government agreed with the Prime Minister's permission to apply the form of contractor selection in the special cases specified in Article 26 of the Bidding Law for the additional purchase of 19,998,810 doses of Pfizer's BNT162 vaccines with conditions in accordance with Resolution No.09/NQ-CP dated May 18, 2021 of the Government.

Pfizer’s BNT162 vaccines.

The Ministry of Health was asked to be responsible for the urgent organisation of the purchase in order to deploy vaccination rollout as soon as possible, meeting the requirements of epidemic prevention and control work and ensuring quality, effectiveness, and to also fight against all negativity in the process of purchasing and using vaccines.

Vietnam has been accelerating its Covid-19 vaccine vaccination efforts. The country hope to secure around 150 million doses this year in order to inoculate at least 70-80% of its population, achieving herd immunity.

Vietnam recruits volunteers for trials of ARCT-154 Covid-19 vaccine

Volunteers are being recruited for clinical trials of ARCT-154, a Covid-19 vaccine developed by a US company, whose manufacturing rights have been secured by VinBioCare, a subsidiary of VinGroup.

Expats offer to present 50,000 Covid-19 vaccine vials to Ho Chi Minh City

Lawyer Vo Duc Duy, a Vietnamese national in the US, and his colleagues have expressed their wish to present 50,000 vials of Moderna Covid-19 vaccine to Ho Chi Minh City which is being hit hard by the pandemic.

HCMC to receive 600,000 more Covid-19 vaccine doses

Ho Chi Minh City will receive 600,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses from Pasteur Institute to continue mass inoculation.

HCMC nearly out of allocated Covid-19 vaccine doses

The current speed of vaccination can see HCMC run out of the Covid-19 vaccine doses that the Ministry of Health has allocated to the city.

Urgent meeting held to evaluate homegrown Covid-19 vaccine Nano Covax

The National Ethics Committee in Biomedical Research under the Ministry of Health on August 7 held an urgent online meeting to review the results of the first phase of clinical trials of Vietnam’s domestically developed Covid-19 vaccine, Nano Covax, and to pass the mid-term assessment of its second phase.

Source: NDO