Vietnam receives more than 2.8 million additional Pfizer vaccine doses from COVAX made available by U.S.

Of which, more than 1.3 million doses arrived on November 6 in Hanoi, and more than 1.5 million doses arrived in two shipments on November 7 and 8 in Ho Chi Minh City. 

Photo: U.S. Embassy

This is the seventh delivery to Vietnam, totaling more than 15 million COVID-19 vaccine doses made available by the U.S.

The United States has committed more than USD30.2 million in COVID-19 related assistance for Vietnam since the beginning of the pandemic.  Building on longstanding cooperation and investment in Vietnam’s health infrastructure, the U.S. has provided support to essentially every pillar of the country’s pandemic response. 

The U.S. support comes in many forms, from virtual trainings that have reached thousands of hospital workers, to genetic sequencing technology that allows Vietnam to track variants of the virus, to equipment for testing and for vaccine storage, to life-saving equipment, such as ventilators, oxygen concentrators, and liquid-oxygen tanks for patients in need.  “We stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Vietnam in the fight against COVID-19,” said the announcement.

At the Global COVID-⁠19 Summit on September 22, the U.S. President announced a commitment to provide an additional 500 million Pfizer doses to 92 low- and middle-income countries and economies around the world, and the African Union, bringing the U.S. total global commitment to more than 1.1 billion doses.  Vietnam has been a leading recipient of these doses. 

Worldwide, the U.S. has provided more than 220 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to more than 100 countries and economies.  The U.S.  will continue to provide additional vaccine doses globally as supply becomes available.  It is also working with U.S. vaccine manufacturers to increase vaccine supply for the rest of the world and with partners to expand global vaccine production and manufacturing capacity to beat this pandemic./.