Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long indicated the donated vaccine, developed by Britain’s AstraZeneca Plc, will be distributed mainly in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam where cases are increasing.
Vietnam had confirmed 11,635 infections as of Wednesday, but about 70 percent of them were confirmed in May or later.
Japan donated 1.24 million AstraZeneca shots to Taiwan earlier in the month.
Tokyo is also considering donating COVID-19 vaccines to Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand in July, according to Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi.
Source: 1 mil. COVID-19 vaccine doses donated by Japan delivered to Vietnam


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