Vietnam receives 300,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine from Romania

PSNews - Recently, the Romanian Government handed over Vietnam 300,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Vietnam, triple the volume committed earlier, with the aim of helping the latter cope with the pandemic.

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Vietnam was the first Asian country to receive the COVID-19 vaccine donated by Romania. Photo: Mofa. 

Speaking at the hand-over ceremony in Hanoi, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs To Anh Dung expressed sincere thanks to the Romanian Government and people for their valuable and timely support to Vietnam, saying this was a noble gesture reflecting the loyal and close friendship between the two countries, which has been nurtured by generations over the past 70 years.

He appreciated Romania as one of the first European Union members to donate vaccines to Vietnam, adding that it would make a practical contribution to the fight against COVID-19 in the country.

The deputy minister took this occasion to express his thanks to Romanian Ambassador to Vietnam Cristina Romila for playing an important role in mobilizing the Romanian Government to present the vaccine to Vietnam. He also proposed the Romania Government consider the possibility of transferring its surplus vaccines to the country.

Deputy Minister of Health Tran Van Thuan affirmed that the Ministry of Health would soon put this batch of vaccines into use in the most effective way.

Romila said that after the phone talks between Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis on July 14 as well as the letter from Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh to Romanian Prime Minister Florin Citu on July 19, the Romanian Government decided to increase the donated number of vaccines to 300,000 doses, three times higher than the original plan.

She said the Romanian Government always remembered the valuable support of face masks and medical supplies from the Vietnamese Government and the Vietnamese community in Romania in the early stages of the pandemic.

Vietnam was the first Asian country to receive the COVID-19 vaccine donated by Romania, she said.

The ambassador affirmed that Romania would continue standing side by side with Vietnam and firmly believed that the country would soon put the pandemic under control.

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