Vietnam receives first batch of Covid-19 vaccine


The vaccine containers being disinfected after the cargo plane landed in Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport, HCM City, on Feb 24, 2021. - VNA/VNS

HO CHI MINH CITY (Vietnam News/ANN): The first doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines arrived Wednesday (Feb 24) afternoon at Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport, HCM City.

Vietnamese deputy health minister Trương Quốc Cường and Emily Hamblin, Consul General in HCM City, each holding their respective country’s flags, and representatives from the importer, Vienam Vaccine JSC (VNVC), were present at the Tân Sơn Nhất airport to welcome the delivery of 117,600 doses.

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