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France, Hungary offer COVID-19 vaccines, rapid test kits to Vietnam

France has decided to share 670,000 doses of COVID-19 Astra Zeneca vaccine with Vietnam via the COVAX Facility, French President Emmanuel Macron wrote on Twitter on August 12.
France, Hungary offer COVID-19 vaccines, rapid test kits to Vietnam ảnh 1French President Emmanuel Macron. (Photo: VGP)
Hanoi (VNA) – France has decided to share670,000 doses of COVID-19 Astra Zeneca vaccine with Vietnam via the COVAXFacility, French President Emmanuel Macron wrote on Twitter on August 12.

The French Embassy in Hanoi said the vaccine doseswill be transported and handed over to Vietnam as soon as possible, scheduledfor late August or early September to serve the pandemic fight in the SoutheastAsian nation.  

The sharing has reflected the importance Franceattaches to the bilateral strategic partnership, and responded to the good deeds of the Vietnamese Government and people towards France in the first days when COVID-19ravaged the country.

Vietnam is the second Asian nation, after Indonesia,to receive France’s vaccine as relief aid at this time, which forms part of theEuropean country’s commitments to sharing at least 30 million doses of COVID-19vaccines with developing countries hard hit by the pandemic through the COVAXFacility by the end of the year. 
France, Hungary offer COVID-19 vaccines, rapid test kits to Vietnam ảnh 2Vials of  Astra Zeneca vaccine (Photo: AFP/VNA)
The Hungarian Government has also decided to aidVietnam with 100,000 doses of Astra Zeneca vaccine and 100,000 rapid test kits.

The donations have demonstrated the fine comprehensivepartnership between the two countries over the past seven decades, their mutualsupport in hard times and their resolve to ward off the pandemic.

Given complex developments of the pandemic, with the morevariants emerging, the Vietnamese Government has viewed accessing differentvaccine sources and widespread inoculation as an important, urgent solution./.
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