KOICA gifts 9.45 million syringes to Viet Nam in response to COVID-19
VGP - The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has recently handed over 9.45 million syringes and 200,000 safety boxes to the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, under the Ministry of Health (MoH), as part of the KOICA’s support for the COVID-19 Response Program in Viet Nam.
Syringes and safety boxes will be distributed by the MoH to provinces for use in the Spring vaccination campaign launched by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh with the aim of giving booster shots to adults in the first quarter of 2022.
In accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the MOH and KOICA, KOICA will provide 42.5 million syringes and 400,000 safety boxes to support the Vietnamese Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) in the second quarter of 2022.
Earlier, on January 6, the KOICA handed over 6.3 million single-use syringes to the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology.
In 2021, the Korean government provided 1.39 million doses of vaccines to Viet Nam. In addition, KOICA has handed over 300.000 COVID-19 antigen test kits for the country through the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, which was delivered by air on December 31, 2021.
As of March 7, the nation has administered 197,910,353 COVID-19 vaccine doses, seeing nearly 76 million people to have received the second jabs and over 40.8 million people gotten the booster shots.
