Australia pledges 3.7 million additional Covid vaccine doses to Vietnam

Vietnamese PM Pham Minh Chinh (L) and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison in a meeting in the U.K. on November 1, 2021. Photo courtesy of Vietnam News Agency

Australian PM Scott Morrison told his Vietnamese counterpart Pham Minh Chinh that Australia would assist Vietnam with an additional 3.7 million Covid-19 vaccine doses.

The pledge was made at meeting Monday between the two leaders on the sidelines of the 2021 U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP26) held in the U.K., the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a press release.

Chinh thanked Morrison and the Australian government for their timely support with vaccines and medical equipment and hoped that Australia would continue to assist Vietnam to deal with complicated developments of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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