Vietnam secures 30 million doses of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine, in talks to manufacture Russia's Sputnik V


HANOI, Jan 4 (Vietnam News/ANN): Vietnam will be supplied with 30 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine within this year, a Vietnamese health official confirmed on Monday.

With a double-dose regime given about a month apart, the delivery from the UK-based university and pharmaceutical firm will be used to inoculate some 15 million people in the country.

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