HANOI: Vietnam’s Health Ministry has ordered to buy Russian Covid-19-vaccines . As reported on Friday by State TV channel . Realizing Asian countries use the Covid-19-vaccines . More in the fight against the Novel Coronavirus .
On Wednesday Russian Prime Minister announced . The first batch of the world’s first Covid-19-vaccines 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.
“In the meantime, Vietnam will still continue developing the country’s own Covid-19 vaccine,” state broadcaster Vietnam Television (VTV) said, citing the ministry.
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 was lauded for suppressing an earlier contagion through aggressive testing, contact-tracing and quarantining, but it is now racing to control infections in multiple locations linked to the popular holiday city of Danang, where a new outbreak was detected on July 25.
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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.
The head of Vietnam’s coronavirus taskforce, Vu Duc Dam, said on Friday that Vietnam now had no choice but to “live safely with the virus”.
“We are implementing the anti-virus measures of a poor country, so everyone has to stay alert and know how to protect themselves from the virus,” Dam said, according to state media.