Vietnam to buy Russia's Covid-19 vaccine


The new two-vector Covid-19 vaccine at Nikolai Gamaleya National Centre of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow on Aug 6, 2020. - AFP

HANOI (Reuters): Vietnam's Health Ministry has registered to buy a Russian Covid-19 vaccine, state television reported on Friday (Aug 14), as the South-east Asian country fights a new outbreak of the coronavirus following months of no local cases.

"In the meantime, Vietnam will still continue developing the country's own Covid-19 vaccine," state broadcaster Vietnam Television (VTV) said.

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