HANOI — Vietnam received the first batch of 117,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday ahead of the planned rollout of the Southeast Asian country’s vaccination program from next month.
The vaccines, which arrived at Ho Chi Minh City on a flight from South Korea, will be used to inoculate more than 50,000 people who are seen as high risk, the government said in a statement.
Deputy health minister, Truong Quoc Cuong, was at the airport to meet the consignment of vaccines flown in from Seoul, according to the media.
South Korea’s SK Bioscience has a plant that has been approved to manufacture the AstraZeneca vaccine.
The batch is part of 30 million doses t…
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