Latvia to provide Vietnam 200,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses

In a letter sent to the Latvian parliament last week, Vietnam’s National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue thanked counterpart Inara Murniece for the vaccine support, calling it a "noble gesture."

Hue said Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs would be assigned to complete necessary procedures to receive the vaccine as soon as possible.

Last month, the NA chairman had written to leaders of parliaments of countries attending the World Conference of Speakers of Parliament in Austria, asking them to support and share vaccines with Vietnam.

Vietnam is expected to receive 54 million more Covid-19 vaccine doses of different types and from different sources within October to raise its total to 110 million, according to the Ministry of Health.

The country has so far vaccinated around 48 million people with at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose. Around 11.6 million have been fully vaccinated.