HANOI, Aug 14 — Vietnam's health ministry has registered to buy a Russian Covid-19 vaccine, state television reported today, as the South-east Asian country fights a new outbreak of the coronavirus following months of no local cases. Russia said on Wednesday the first batch of the world's first...
Samples of a Covid-19 vaccine developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, in Moscow, Russia August 6, 2020. — Russian Direct Investment Fund handout via Reuters
Russia said on Wednesday the first batch of the world's first Covid-19 vaccine would be rolled out within two weeks, rejecting as “groundless” the safety concerns aired by some experts over Moscow's rapid approval of the drug. The ministry did not say how many doses of the Russian vaccine it had ordered, or when it expected to receive them. Vietnam's own home-grown vaccine will be available by the end of 2021, the ministry said last month.
Vietnam has reported a total of 911 infections, with 21 deaths. Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has warned that the risk of wider spread of the virus is “very high,” and said that the next several days would be “critical” in fighting the outbreak.
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