Vietnam is no longer using AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine.

In response to information from the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca that it is carrying out the process of requesting to withdraw the license for the COVID-19 vaccine in the remaining regions and countries around the world, the Drug Administration of Vietnam ( Ministry of Health ) said that Vietnam is no longer using this vaccine.

A vial of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is injected in Vietnam in 2021.

The previously licensed vaccines have expired. After that, AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines were no longer imported into Vietnam. Currently, only a few types of vaccines with valid expiration dates are stored for use in the prevention and control of the COVID-19 pandemic.

At the time of licensing in Vietnam, the COVID-19 vaccine produced by AstraZeneca had been licensed for emergency use in 181 countries and territories. This is also the vaccine type that the World Health Organization has included in the emergency use list.

In Vietnam, during the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to the 30 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine ordered from AstraZeneca, Vietnam also received AstraZeneca vaccines sporadically through sponsorship programs.

Associate Professor, Dr. Pham Quang Thai, Deputy Head of the Department of Infectious Disease Control, National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, said that AstraZeneca is one of the COVID-19 vaccines widely used in Vietnam.

To date, Vietnam has safely administered 74.3 million injections nationwide to people aged 18 and older. The last AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses in Vietnam will be administered before July 2023.

According to AstraZeneca, from May 7, this vaccine can no longer be used in the European Union (EU), after the company voluntarily withdrew its "business license" in this region.

AstraZeneca said the vaccine withdrawal was for commercial reasons. The company said there were now other more effective vaccines that could protect against newer strains of SARS-CoV-2. Therefore, the market demand for AstraZeneca's vaccine was no longer there.

AstraZeneca is the first COVID-19 vaccine approved for conditional import into Vietnam since February 2021. This vaccine was researched and developed by AstraZeneca Pharmaceutical Company in collaboration with Oxford University (UK)./.

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