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Vaccine production at Vabiotech Company, one of the research units that produces the COVID-19 vaccine in Vietnam.
According to information from the Ministry of Health, the Advisory Council for the Licensing of Vaccines and Medical Biological Registry met and agreed to request the Minister of Health to allow the importation of COVID-19 vaccines from the AstraZeneca company.
“The company submitted a dossier on January 6, the council assigned the evaluation experts and the committee met 29-1, the Council based on the technical dossier and evidence, the available data on the vaccine. Since then, he has proposed to the Minister of Health to allow the importation of this vaccine in accordance with Article 67, Government Decree 54, which means the importation of vaccines conditioned by the urgent need to prevent COVID-19, “said a councilor. Online youth.
Based on this position, AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine (based on profile) is relatively safe for people under the age of 60, the rate of protective antibody antibiotics to prevent COVID-19 disease after injection is satisfactory.
This vaccine has also been distributed (as 1-year circulation or emergency import, conditional import) in about 10 countries, including the UK from December 29 to 2020, Mexico 4-1, Thailand 20-1, Philippines 28 -one …
The source also said that because Vietnam had signed a memorandum of understanding with this company earlier, the company had reserved a quantity of vaccines for Vietnam (this figure is said to be about 30 million doses).
But according to the aforementioned councilor, the first batch will return just in the middle of this first quarter just after the import permit application approved by the Minister of Health, with the amount of 20,000-30,000 doses.
This vaccine is called AZD1222, each person will be vaccinated with 2 doses, first of all it will be used for high-risk people, doctors treating COVID-19 patients, the front-line forces to prevent epidemics … Currently there are also 4 companies Vietnamese researching and producing this vaccine, of which 2 companies are in the human testing stage.
“Imported vaccines will be used first with the state budget source and will be socialized while awaiting the launch of the national vaccine,” said the source mentioned above.
