The Government has agreed to buy additional 20 million doses of Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, on top of the contract for 31 million doses signed with the US company in May.
Đà Nẵng will lock down seven districts for a week, starting from 8am, Monday (August 16) to midnight on August 23, as the number of coronavirus cases has still remained at an average of 70 per day for 15 consecutive days.
The Hà Nội Medical University on Sunday kicked off the first phase clinical trial of the ARCT-154 vaccine against COVID-19 with 100 volunteers from Hà Nội.
HCM City will extend its strict social distancing measuresnbsp;for another month given the risk of a re-emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic,nbsp;Phan Văn Mãi, deputy secretary of the city Party Committee, said yesterday.