Vaccine AstraZeneca (Photo: Reuters)

This marks the seventh shipment from a deal for 30 million doses that the Ministry of Health ordered from AstraZeneca through the private company VNVC.

At present, a total of nearly 4,4 million doses of the contracted amount have arrived in the nation.

So far, Vietnam has received 18.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, including 11.5 million AstraZeneca doses, over five million Moderna doses, 1.5 million Sinopharm doses, more than 400,000 Pfizer doses, and 12,000 Sputnik V doses.

By Friday morning, nearly eight million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered, with over 820,000 people receiving two jabs.