US provides Vietnam with 2 million doses of Moderna vaccine

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Vietnam has already received about 8 million doses of vaccine, mainly through COVAX

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In Vietnam, 4 million people were vaccinated with a single dose, and 258 thousand people were fully vaccinated. In total, 98 million people need to be vaccinated.

Vietnam received 2 million doses of COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine from Moderna, donated by the US government. About this the day before reported US Embassy in Hanoi.

As specifies Reuters, this shipment, delivered through the COVAX global facility, is part of the 80 million doses of vaccine that the President Joe Biden singled out to support other countries.

Vietnam faced a sustained outbreak of coronavirus back in late April, when the number of daily infections rose to record levels.

Most new coronavirus cases in Vietnam registered in Ho Chi Minh City… The authorities announced a 15-day quarantine there. It is to this city that Moderna vaccines will be sent.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Health reported on Saturday 1,853 new cases of coronavirus infection. In the country, this figure has exceeded one thousand for a week. In total, Vietnam has recorded 27,863 cases of infection and 112 deaths from coronavirus.

Vietnam received about 8 million doses of the vaccine, mostly through COVAX. There, 4 million people were vaccinated with a single dose, and 258 thousand people were fully vaccinated. This speaks of the slow process of vaccination, because in total 98 million people need to be vaccinated.

The Ministry of Health said it would be able to vaccinate 50% of the population aged 18 and over by the end of the year, and 70% by the end of March 2022.

As previously reported, a hybrid variant of COVID-19 discovered in Vietnam… It has the characteristics of the British and Indian strains. It is more contagious and is easily airborne.

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