First 100,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine to arrive in Vietnam on July 7
Wednesday, 07/07/2021 16:20 (GMT+7)
According to the Ministry of Health, the first shipment of some 96,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech will be delivered to Hanoi on July 7, according to the Vietnamese health ministry.
Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines. (Photo: AFP/VNA)
This is part of the order of 31 million doses for 2021 with the health ministry, with planned delivery of 3 million in third quarter and 28 million in fourth quarter.
The mRNA vaccine vials have a shelf life of up to six months if kept in ultra cold conditions (-80 degrees Celsius) and one month if stored at normal fridge temperature (2-8 degrees Celsius).
In May 2021 the Ministry of Health completed negotiations and inked a deal to purchase 31 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech. A month later it approved Comirnaty for emergency use in Vietnam.
Comirnaty is a vaccine for preventing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in people aged 12 years and older. It contains a molecule called messenger RNA (mRNA) with instructions for producing a protein from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
The vaccine has been approved the World Health Organisation and used widely in the United States and many European countries./.
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