State President attends Cuban vaccine handover ceremony

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc (centre) witnesses the symbolic reception of 1.05 million Abdala vaccine at Noi Bai airport in Hanoi on September 25 evening. (Photo: Tuan Anh)

Right after his landing, the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Health and the Viet Nam Fatherland Front held a ceremony to hand over and to receive vaccines and medical equipment and materials for the fight against the Covid-19 transported to Vietnam on his special plane.

Deputy Foreign Minister Dang Hoang Giang affirmed that the President’s working trip achieved all the targets set. It clearly extended the message of friendship and faithfulness with the traditional friend Cuba and of a dynamic, self-reliant Viet Nam that always strives for peace and development.

One of the prominent and practical achievements of the trip is the support from the international community, especially to Viet Nam’s pandemic fight and the socio-economic restoration and development.

Besides the 1.05 million doses of Abdala vaccine from Cuba transported by the special plane, foreign countries and partners committed and provided another 1.5 million doses to Viet Nam and the US committed a large quantity of vaccines to Viet Nam through the COVAX mechanism in the time to come.

In his working session with the Pfizer, the company committed to provide all the 31 million doses of the vaccine contracted with Viet Nam right in this year and 20 million doses for children when data are sufficient. Besides vaccine doses, many partners helped Viet Nam witth medical equipment valued at 8.8 million USD.

In the witness of President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, the token of the Abdala vaccine, ventilators and other medical equipment was handed to Do Van Chien, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Viet Nam Fatherland Front; Miniter of Health Nguyen Thanh Long; and Deputy Defence Minister Hoang Xuan Chien.

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