Earlier, on June 12, the Ministry of Health approved the Pfizer vaccine named Comirnaty manufactured by Pfizer (Belgium) and BioNTech (Germany).
The Southeast Asian country has so far signed a contract to buy 51 million doses of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine, including 20 million doses for people aged from 12 to 17 years old.
The first batch of Pfizer vaccines arrived in Vietnam in July.