Japan plans to supply vaccines to Vietnam, Malaysia, says Yomiuri

The move comes as Japan delivered about 1.24 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines to Taiwan on June 4. - Reuters

HANOI/TOKYO, June 5, (Bloomberg): Japan is planning to provide Covid-19 vaccines to Vietnam and Malaysia, the Yomiuri newspaper reported Saturday, without saying where it got the information.

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s administration is preparing to dispatch the vaccines as soon as this month, the report said. The supply of the inoculations would be made outside the Covax initiative, the World Health Organisation-backed effort to buy and distribute vaccines to low- and middle-income nations, according to the Yomiuri.