GAVI's vaccine refrigerators arrive in Ho Chi Minh city on June 8, 2021 (Illustrative photo: by Reuters) |
The refrigerators will be distributed from Ho Chi Minh city to district clinics in 23 Central Highlands and southern provinces to store vaccines, including those for COVID-19.
GAVI is co-leading COVAX and coordinating the COVAX Facility, a global risk-sharing mechanism for pooled procurement and equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. Veronique Maeva Fages from GAVI said other cold storage equipment supported by COVAX Facility will be delivered to Vietnam later this year.
A UNICEF Representative said UNICEF will provide Vietnam with a number of vaccine storage equipment, including over 2,200 fridges, cold storage trucks, and tens of millions of syringes and safety boxes.