Britain’s donation is part of nine million vaccines it will begin delivering this week to countries around the world as the first of 100 million Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged it would share at last month’s G7 Summit.

People in HCMC get Covid-19 vaccine jabs at a stadium in July, 2021.

At least 80 million doses will go to the Covax facility, while the rest will go directly to countries.

"We're doing this to help the most vulnerable, but also because we know we won’t be safe until everyone is safe," Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said, as cited in a statement of the U.K. Embassy in Vietnam.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that the Czech Republic would gift Vietnam 250,000 doses without specifying which vaccine.

Vietnam has secured deals for 130 million doses so far and is in talks with other manufacturers for another 40 million shots, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said last Sunday, adding the former are expected to arrive this year and in early 2022.

The government aims to vaccinate 70 percent of the country’s 96 million population by April next year.

So far more than 5.2 million have received shots, with 496,630 being fully vaccinated.

Vietnam receives extra 3 mln Covid-19 vaccine doses from US via COVAX

Three million Moderna vaccine doses donated by the U.S. under the Covax facility arrived in Vietnam on Saturday, UNICEF Vietnam said in a statement.

Over 1.2 million more doses of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine arrives in HCM City

A total of 1,228,500 doses of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on July 23 morning.

First batch of Sputnik V vaccine produced in Vietnam

VABIOTECH, one of Vietnam’s leading pharmaceutical companies, and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) on July 21 announced the production of a test batch of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus in Vietnam.

Over 1,000 second shots of Nano Covax vaccine administered to volunteers in third-phase trials

More than 1,000 volunteers received their second shots of homegrown Nano Covax vaccine in its third phase of human trials, as announced by the Defence Ministry’s Military Medical University on July 19.

Vietnam aims to have domestic Covid-19 vaccine produced by 2021

Deputy Health Minister Tran Van Thuan has stressed that Vietnam aims to have a domestic Covid-19 vaccine produced by 2021.

Source: VnExpress