The Vietnamese health ministry has unveiled a detailed timeline for the delivery of various batches of COVID-19 vaccines to be used in the national vaccination drive, after the first 117,000 Oxford/AstraZeneca doses bought from the manufacturer arrived late February.

The northern city of Hải Phòng is tracing people who had close contact with two local residents who tested positive for the coronavirus when they arrived in Australia.

The Hà Nội-based Việt Nam Military Medical University and the Pasteur Institute in HCM City have completed administering the first doses of Nano Covax in the second-stage human trials of this homegrown COVID-19 candidate vaccine.