Speaking at the event, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Dang Hoang Giang thanked the COVAX Facility and the U.S. Government and people for their timely support as Vietnam ramps up its COVID-19 vaccine inoculation campaign. He stressed that with this allocation, COVAX continues to be a major supplier of COVID-19 vaccines to Vietnam, with a total of 14 million doses so far, while the U.S. remains COVAX’s top vaccine donor and Vietnam’s largest supplier with 7.5 million doses.

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Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Dang Hoang Giang (center) receives 1.5 million doses of Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from the COVAX Facility with the assistance from the U.S. Government on October 4.

He also spoke highly of the effective support from U.N. agencies, including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the U.S. in medical supplies and capacity building for Vietnamese health workers, saying Vietnam wishes to continue receiving such important assistance as well as consultancy for its post-pandemic recovery and socio-economic development in the coming time.

For his part, Christopher Klein, Chargé d'Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam, affirmed that the U.S. Government will continue assisting Vietnam and other countries in overcoming the pandemic and building a better life.

Translated by Song Anh