 Gabriella Biondi, Deputy Director General/Principal Director for the Countries of Asia and Oceania, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is interviewed by a VNA journalist in Rome. (photo: Bach Linh-Truong Dụy/VNA) |
A military transport plane landed in Tan Son Nhat airport to unload ventilators, electric breast pumps, heart monitors, and personal protective equipment such as anti-droplet goggles, gloves, and face masks.
800,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines that Italy donated to Vietnam through the COVAX facility will arrive in Vietnam next Monday.
COVAX is a global mechanism, co-led by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness and Innovations (CEPI), GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, the WHO, and UNICEF. So far, COVAX has provided 243 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to 139 countries.