Wednesday, 09/02/2022 16:36 (GMT+7)
Deputy Defence Minister Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien and Chinese Ambassador to Vietnam Xiong Bo on February 8 chaired a ceremony to hand over 300,000 doses of Vero-Cell vaccine against COVID-19 from the Chinese Ministry of National Defence to the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defence.
The vaccines at the hand-over ceremony (Photo: VNA)
According to Ambassador Xiong Bo, to share with and support the Vietnamese army and people in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese Ministry of National Defence presented the vaccines produced by China to the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defence. He confirmed that the vaccine demonstrates the sentiments of the Chinese military in particular and Chinese Government in general to the military and people of Vietnam.
Deputy Defence Minister Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien thanked the Chinese side for the gift, asserting that amid the complex development of the pandemic globally, it is a precious present, which is evidence of the friendly neighborliness and solidarity between the two countries and two militaries in particular.
He added that the vaccines will be used after checks to ensure that they meet the quality standards.
The Vero-Cell COVID-19 vaccine produced by Sinopharm has been listed in the WHO Emergency Use Listing Procedure (EUL) and purchased by the COVAX Facility to help countries have equal access to vaccines. It has also been used in over 70 countries, including many Southeast Asian countries such as Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
Earlier, on August 23, 2021, the Chinese Ministry of National Defence also presented 200,000 doses of Vero-Cell COVID-19 vaccine to the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defence./.
Compiled by BTA