Italy announced additional aid to Vietnam 796,000 Dose Astrazeneca's Vaccine Covid-19 after handing over 800,000 doses last week.

In order to support Vietnam to respond to Pandemic Covid-19, the Italian Government announced a decision to aid more for Vietnam 796,000 Astrazeneca vaccine doses through the COVAX mechanism of the World Health Organization (WHO), according to the world

Health workers prepare a dose of Vaccine Covid-19 at the vaccination point in Go Vap District, Ho Chi Minh City, on June 21.

This decision helps to increase the total number of Covid-19 vaccines that Italy aid Vietnam to more than 1.6 million doses, bringing Vietnam into one of Italy's largest vaccine-receiving partners globally.

Vietnam on September 14 received 812,060 ITALY vaccine doses to serve a vaccination campaign.

Before the complex epidemic situation and the emergence of dangerous new strains like Delta, Vietnam has tried to access many vaccines as possible to quickly deploy large-scale vaccination campaigns, see this award

According to the diplomatic diplomatic working group, by the end of August, Vietnam received 33 million doses of vaccines and could receive an additional 16-17 million doses this month.