Vietnam invited to join in SARS-CoV-2 vaccine production
World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative to Vietnam Kidong Park has said the Vaccine Alliance wants to invite Vietnam to join in research and production of vaccine against SARS-CoV-2.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam at the meeting (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) ꦫ– World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative toVietnam Kidong Park has said the Vaccine Alliance wants to invite Vietnam tojoin in research and production of vaccine against SARS-CoV-2.
During a meeting in Hanoi on June 30 chairedby Deputy Prime Minister and Head of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control Vu Duc Dam, Park said the vaccine is expectedto be available in late 2021.
He said the COVID-19 pandemic is spreadingcomplicatedly worldwide with nearly 10.4 million infections and over 507,000 deaths.There are about 150,000 new cases and more than 4,000 fatalities on averageeach day. Notably, there is not any vaccine or medicine for treatment.
🌠 About the reopening of border gates and resumption of international flightswith several countries and territories, experts warned that as the pandemiclingers, countries should carefully consider the decision.
Park said the WHO has recommended givingpriority to necessary travel, considering monitoring capacity of each nation at border gates,public response and economic resilience. Regarding vaccine production, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said two Vietnamese units are pilotinganti-COVID-19 vaccine on mice. In the near future, it will be experimented onprimates and humans.
He expected that the WHO and internationalorganisations will help step up vaccine production in the country.
ꦜ Deputy PM Dam, for his part, said Vietnam is willing to partner with the worldin epidemic prevention and control. The country is now mastering technology toproduce four kinds of test kits with high efficiency and reasonable costs, he said.
He hoped that the WHO andinternational organisations would help popularise such products worldwide,towards driving back the pandemic./.
Vietnam will be among the developing countries to receive official development assistance (ODA) totaling 36 billion won (nearly 30 million USD) this year from the Republic of Korea (RoK) to fight COVID-19 and accelerate their sustainable development, according to the RoK’s Foreign Ministry.
Vietnam has gone through 75 consecutive days without new COVID-19 cases recorded in the community on June 30 morning, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has stressed the need for Vietnam to capitalise on every opportunity to develop and produce COVID-19 vaccines, noting that self-sufficiency in supply is critical to disease prevention and control.
The number of COVID-19 cases in Vietnam stands at 355 as no new infections were reported in the evening of June 30, which is also the 75th straight day without community transmission of the coronavirus in the country.
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The groundbreaking ceremony took place one day after the VNVC Vaccine JS Company and Sanofi Group exchanged cooperation documents on vaccine production technology transfer under the witness of State President Luong Cuong and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Vietnam’s traditional medicine took centre stage at the International Congress Biopharm Nonclinical Development, BioNCiD 2025, held on May 25-26 in the Cuban city of Varadero, amid growing global interest in sustainable healthcare solutions.
Under the agreement, VNVC and Sanofi will gradually implement technology transfers to enable domestic production of several key Sanofi vaccines that are widely used in Vietnam. In addition, Sanofi will support VNVC in training human resources and quality management in vaccine research and manufacturing.
Despite the ongoing global circulation and unpredictable developments of SARS-CoV-2, the World Health Organisation (WHO) hasn’t issued new warnings about COVID-19, said the Ministry of Health.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam at the meeting (Photo: VNA) 
