to cuba. in july 2021, the ministry of health allowed mixing first and second doses of the oxford-astrazeneca and pfizer-biontech vaccines should there be limited vaccine supply and the vaccinated person agrees. in late july 2021, đồng tháp province allowed a local company to buy 200,000 doses of nanocovax vaccine. on 7 may 2021, vietnam recorded first death after administered astrazeneca vaccine. she was a 35-year-old medical staff in an giang province. on 8 september 2021, vietnam allowed those who received a first dose of moderna's vaccine to get a different shot when they get their second dose due to the lack of vaccine supply. on 14 october 2021, the ministry of health authorized the use of covid-19 vaccine for children aged 12 to 17. on december 10, the city of ho chi minh initiated a campaign to administer third doses of astrazeneca and pfizer vaccinations to adults over 50, those with weakened immune systems, and frontline workers. the city plans to vaccinate all adults above the age of 18 with the third dosage in 2022. vaccines on order as of 21 november 2022, a total of 230,910,514 doses have arrived in vietnam. the government began to procure doses of covid-19 vaccines from various sources: vaccine origin progress doses ordered doses available approval deployment notes oxford–astrazeneca united kingdom, sweden phase iii clinical trials 55 million 65,223,076 30 january 2021 8 march 2021 including additional doses donated by covax, and other countries. sputnik v russia phase iii clinical trials 30 million 1,608,998 23 march 2021 march 2021 including doses donated by russia. including 100,000 sputnik light doses. produce in vietnam by vabiotech pharmaceutical. sinopharm bibp china phase iii clinical trials 33 million 52,261,200 4 june 2021 10 july 2021 including additional doses donated by china. uae 30 million 10 september 2021 1 october 2021 under the name hayat-vax. pfizer–biontech germany, united states phase iii clinical trials 51 million 92,590,080 12 june 2021 17 july 2021 the first batch was delivered in july 2021.including additional doses donated by the united states through covax. moderna united states phase iii clinical trials 5 million 14,077,160 29 june 2021 17 july 2021 including additional doses donated by covax. janssen belgium, netherlands, united states phase iii clinical trials 10 million none 15 july 2021 pending abdala cuba phase iii clinical trials 10 million 5,150,000 18 september 2021 october 2021 covaxin india phase iii clinical trials unknown none 10 november 2021 pending nanocovax vietnam phase iii clinical trials 200,000 pending pending arct-154 united states, vietnam phase i-iii clinical trials covivac vietnam phase ii clinical trials unknown vabiotech vietnam phase i clinical trials unknown even when the chinese announced it would provide priority access to coronavac and the sinopharm bibp vaccine, vietnam is the last asean nation to publicly state if it will use this due to anti-china sentiment among the public. it is also one of the last to approve a chinese vaccine. for locally produced covid-19 vaccines, the moh expects to have the first batch ready for use at the end of the third quarter of 2021. these vaccines can be put into the country's vaccination campaign in 2022 to ensure supply source and health security, overcome the difficulties when purchasing foreign vaccines. the two locally produced vaccines, nanocovax and covivac, were put on trial on january to march 2021, respectively. on 21 july 2021, the first test batch of russia's sputnik v vaccine has been produced in vietnam, according to russia's sovereign wealth fund rdif and vietnamese pharmaceutical company vabiotech. the first validation samples taken from the batch were shipped to gamaleya center in russia for quality control checks. on 24 september, the vaccine began to be mass-produced when it was determined that it met the quality standards. local production vaccine production capacity manufacturer notes nanocovax 8–12 million doses a month nanogen pharmaceutical biotechnology jsc able to increase capacity to 30–50 million doses a month covivac 6–30 million doses a year institute of vaccines and medical biologicals sputnik v 5 million doses a month vaccine and biological production company no. 1 (vabiotech) arct-154 200 million doses a year vinbiocare vaccines in trial stage for broader coverage of this topic, see covid-19 vaccine, nanocovax, and vabiotech covid-19 vaccine. covid‑19 candidate vaccines vaccine candidates,developers, and sponsors type (technology) current phase (participants)design completed phase (participants) ref vbc-cov19-154 covid-19 vaccinearcturus therapeutics, vinbiocare mrna phase iii (21,000)phase i/ii/iii (21,000): randomized, double-blinded, placebo controlled.aug–dec 2021, vietnam preclinical nanocovaxnanogen pharmaceutical biotechnology jsc subunit (sars‑cov‑2 recombinant spike protein with aluminum adjuvant) phase iii (13,000)jun–sep 2021, vietnam phase i–ii (620)phase i (60): open label, dose escalation.phase ii (560): randomization, double-blind, multicenter, placebo-controlled.dec 2020 – jun 2021, vietnam covivacinstitute of vaccines and medical biologicals viral vector postponed phase i–ii (495)phase i (120): open label, dose escalation.phase ii (375): randomized, observer-blind.mar 2021 – dec 2021, vietnam vabiotech covid-19 vaccine vaccine and biological production company no. 1 (vabiotech) subunit preclinicalawaited for the conduct on phase i trial ? a spokesman from the covivac vaccine development team stated on november 30, 2021, that they are currently unable to locate a location with several thousand people who have not been inoculated against covid-19 and are eligible to participate in clinical trials. as a result, the development team opted to halt the phase three experiment indefinitely. rollout plan a medical staff prepares to inject the astrazeneca covid-19 vaccine for journalist at the ho chi minh city pasteur institute. vnvc – the company in charge of importing and storing vaccines in vietnam, said it is ready to have staff and facilities to store up to 170 million doses of vaccine. it has 49 provincial separate vaccine warehouses, 2 cold conditions warehouses, and 3 deep negative conditions warehouses for storing vaccines at a temperature of -40 to -86°c. in february 2021, the vnvc system's service capacity is up to 100,000 customers per day and can increase capacity to serve up to 4 million doses of covid-19 vaccines per month. according to deputy minister of health tran van thuan, to get protection for the majority of the population, vietnam needs to diversify supplies of vaccines, which including locally manufactured vaccines and maximising the resources from the businesses and local administration's budgets in addition to the government's budget to get the vaccination programme running. the budget needed to give vaccine shots for 20% of the population is estimated at 6.739 trillion vnd ($293.67 million usd), but over 90% of this cost is funded by the covax facility. the government will contribute 24 billion vnd, the remaining comes from municipal and provincial governments and private sources. the ministry of health on 24 june 2021 established a steering committee for the nationwide covid-19 vaccination campaign. the steering committee consists of 5 subcommittees, including: subcommittee on receiving, transporting and preserving vaccines, subcommittee on immunization, subcommittee on safety of vaccination, subcommittee on quality supervision of vaccines, subcommittee on information technology application of vaccination management and communication and permanent office of the steering committee. the national steering committee for the covid-19 vaccination campaign is headed by the minister of health. the command center of the vaccination campaign is located at the ministry of defence, led by a deputy chief of the general staff of the people's army. it is expected that there will be eight vaccine storage warehouses, including one warehouses in each military districts and one at the high command of capital hanoi. when the vaccine arrives at the airport, it will be immediately transferred to the military warehouse. then the vaccines will be transported by military vehicles to 19,000 vaccination points nationwide. progress to date vaccination (as of 15 january 2023) doses administered 265,906,862 total population 97,580,000 1st dose2nd dose3rd and more doses 90,454,83385,877,46689,574,563 vietnam vaccinations (cumulative) first dose second and third dose vietnam total administered doses per half-month first dose second and third dose dose supplied by vaccine product, as of 13 march 2022 astrazeneca (28.83%) sinopharm (23.56%) pfizer and moderna (44.56%) abdala (2.32%) sputnik v and sputnik light (0.73%) dose supplied by source, as of 13 march 2022 government procurement (47.94%) covax (25.62%) foreign government aid (14.33%) private enterprise (12.11%) in mid-march 2021, vietnam received 2,000 doses of sputnik v vaccine donated by the government of the russian federation and used it for nearly 900 people. on 1 august 2021, vietnam received another 10,000 doses of sputnik v vaccine donated by the government of the russian federation. 740,000 doses of sputnik v vaccine, provided by the russian direct investment fund, arrived at noi bai airport, hanoi, on the afternoon of september 29. the first batch of vaccines sourced via covax mechanism, containing 811,200 doses, arrived in hanoi's noi bai international airport on 1 april 2021. vietnam received the second shipment of vaccines sourced via covax, containing nearly 1,682,400 astrazeneca covid-19 vaccine doses on 16 may. on 2 august 2021, covax delivered additional batch containing 1.18 million doses of astrazeneca covid-19 vaccine shipped from laboratorio univesal farma, manufacturing facility in spain, to vietnam. on 10 august 2021, viet nam received 494,400 doses of covid-19 vaccine astrazeneca from the covax facility. 117,600 doses of astrazeneca's covid-19 vaccine via vnvc contract arrived at tan son nhat international airport in ho chi minh city on 24 february. another batch of astrazeneca covid-19 vaccines containing 288,100 doses arrived at tan son nhat airport on 25 may. this is the second batch under a contract for 30 million the ministry of health and the vnvc have struck with the company. the third batch containing 580,000 astrazeneca covid-19 vaccines under the vnvc contract arrived at tan son nhat airport, on the morning of 9 july, while another batch with 921,400 doses arrived on 15 july. on 23 july, 1,228,500 doses of astrazeneca vaccine arrived at tan son nhat international airport, the largest shipment so far under the contract between vietnam vaccine joint stock company (vnvc) and astrazeneca. on 29 july, another 659,900 doses of astrazeneca covid-19 vaccine arrived at tan son nhat airport. on 6, 13 and 19 august 2021, 592,100, 1,113,400 and 1,209,400 doses of astrazeneca covid-19 vaccine under vnvc contract arrived at tan son nhat airport. another batch containing 1,442,300 doses of covid-19 vaccine astrazeneca, under vnvc contract, arrived at ho chi minh city on 26 august. from 30 august to 1 september, vietnam received 2,016,460 doses of covid-19 vaccine astrazeneca under vnvc contract. on 16 june 2021, vietnam also received 966,320 doses of astrazeneca covid-19 vaccine donated by japan. on 25 june, it is announced that japan will donate another 1 million doses of astrazeneca vaccine to vietnam. the first batch of this donation (400,000 doses) arrived at tân sơn nhất international airport on 2 july, while the second batch arrived on 9 july. on 16 july, japan sent another 996,740 doses of astrazeneca vaccine to vietnam. on 3 august 2021, vietnam received 415,000 doses of astrazeneca vaccine donated by the uk government. on late august, vietnam also received 501,600 doses and 300,000 doses of astrazeneca vaccine donated by poland and romania. on 26 august 2021, vietnam received 404,000 doses of covid-19 vaccine part of australia's commitment to provide 1.5 million doses of astrazeneca vaccine for vietnam through unicef. on july 10, vietnam received 2,000,040 doses of moderna covid-19 vaccine donated to the covax facility by the united states government. on 7 july 2021, the first batch of pfizer's vaccines, containing 97,110 doses, arrived at nội bài international airport. it was later confirmed that vietnam received 746,460 doses of pfizer's vaccines that day. a day earlier, on 6 july, it is also confirmed that the united states would send vietnam two million doses of moderna covid-19 vaccine via covax mechanism. this batch of vaccines arrived in vietnam on 10 july. another batch containing 3,000,060 doses of moderna vaccine donated to covax by the us government arrived in hanoi on 24 and 25 july. on 11 august 2021 and 26 august 2021, vietnam received 217,620 and 770,000 doses of pfizer's vaccines purchased by the government. on 25–27 august 2021, vietnam received 1,065,870 doses of pfizer vaccine donated by the us government. vietnam received 250,800 doses of astrazeneca and moderna covid-19 vaccine donated by the czech republic on 30 august. vietnam's covid-19 vaccination programme began on 8 march 2021, administering the astrazeneca vaccine to medical workers in hanoi, ho chi minh city and hải dương province. as of 12