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First Pfizer vaccine shipment arrives in Vietnam

by VTV407 July 2021 Last updated at 14:00 PM

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First Pfizer vaccine shipment arrives in Vietnam
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VTV.vn - The first shipment of 97,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech arrived at Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport in Vietnam on July 7.

The first shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTechCOVID-19 vaccine will be stored at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology at -80C.

Some three million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine will be shipped to Vietnam in the third quarter of 2021, while up to 28 million doses of the vaccine will arrive in the country in the fourth quarter of the year. This is the third vaccine to be shipped to Vietnam, after the AstraZeneca and Sinopharm vaccines.