Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh meets COVAX Facility Managing Director Aurélia Nguyen
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on November 3 (local time) met with Managing Director of the COVAX Facility Aurélia Nguyen, during which he thanked the COVAX programme for its commitment to providing Viet Nam with 38.9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines free of charge in 2021, including nearly 23 million doses delivered to the country.
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| Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh meets with Managing Director of the COVAX Facility Aurélia Nguyen. (Photo: VNA) |
The PM underlined that with the determination and efforts of the Government and support of international friends, including the important assistance of COVAX and other countries through the programme, as well as high consensus from the community, Viet Nam has basically put the pandemic under control.
Viet Nam has switched to coming up with a strategy for safe and flexible adaption to and effective control of the pandemic, recovery and promotion of socio-economic development, and gradual resumption of economic and tourism activities, he said.
Stressing that Viet Nam is in need of more vaccines as soon as possible, the PM proposed that COVAX continue to allocate and transfer the remaining vaccines to Viet Nam right in November, and continue allocating more vaccines to Viet Nam.
He said that the Vietnamese Government has decided to voluntarily contribute an additional 500,000 USD to COVAX, raising the country’s contribution to 1 million USD, he said.
For her part, Aurélia Nguyen spoke highly of Viet Nam’s implementation of COVID-19 vaccinations so far, adding that COVAX Facility has decided to allocate additional over 9 million doses of Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Viet Nam and will deliver them to Viet Nam as soon as possible.
She affirmed COVAX will continue to accompany Viet Nam in pandemic prevention and control, by providing more vaccines and technical support for vaccination, and boosting coordination in seeking vaccine sources under the cost-sharing mechanism.
Nguyen highly valued and thanked the Vietnamese Government for deciding to make the additional contribution to COVAX Facility, thereby showing the country’s sense of responsibility and international solidarity, especially when Viet Nam is a developing country still facing many difficulties.
She underlined that Viet Nam’s decision at this time is significant in the context that COVAX Facility is to call on the international community to increase contributions to the programmee in the next few weeks.
She expressed her hope that Viet Nam will spread this spirit and call on regional countries, ASEAN member countries as well as partners and businesses to continue to support COVAX efforts.
(Source: VNA)
