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Vietnam receives 1.5m doses of COVID-19 vaccine from France, Italy

by VTV415 September 2021 Last updated at 09:00 AM

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VTV.vn - On Tuesday, a ceremony was held in Hanoi to symbolically receive 1.5 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine donated by the governments of France and Italy through the COVAX Facility.

Addressing the event, Deputy Foreign Minister Tô Anh Dũng thanked the French and Italian governments and people for supporting Vietnam in the COVID-19 fight. This is evidence of the dynamic development of the strategic partnership between Vietnam and the two European countries as well as their friendship and solidarity to overcome the pandemic, he stated.

So far, France and Italy have been the leading providers of COVID-19 vaccines to Vietnam among EU countries

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