Vaccine self-sufficiency needed to return to new normal: Deputy PM
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam held a working session with leaders of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Science and Technology to review COVID-19 vaccines, medicines and biological products for testing.
Hanoi (VNA)𝐆 – Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam held a working sessionwith leaders of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Science andTechnology to review COVID-19 vaccines, medicines and biological products fortesting.
At the event, DeputyMinister of Health Tran Van Thuan said Vietnam has so far licencedeight types of COVID-19 vaccines for emergency use, built specific criteria andstandards for licensing home-grown vaccines based on feedback from experts ofthe World Health Organisation, which are scheduled to be issued before October20. About medicines, the Ministry of Health will create favourable conditions for firms to import materialsand preapre for production after they are officially licenced. Several companies have receivedtechnologies to produce rapid antigen testing kits at reasonable costs. Dam, who is also Deputy Head of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, said Vietnam hasmastered technologies to produce biological products for testing and anti-pandemicequipment. At the same time, vaccine research and production have made initialpositive steps with clinical trials since the middle of this year.
Deputy PM Vu Duc Dam. (Photo: baochinhphu.vn)
The Ministry of Health alsoreported that Vietnam has fully been self-sufficient in biological products for RT-PCR and rapid anti-gen testing.
ไ The Deputy PM askedthe Ministry of Science and Technology to promptly carry out the vaccineresearch programme till 2030 and scientific tasks for pandemic prevention andcontrol, update the latest advanced technologies for the effort, and reportissues out of its authority to the PM.
Source: VNA
The Ministry of Health wasassigned to work with ministries and agencies concerned to forecast the pandemicsituation and demand for vaccines, medicines, biological products andanti-pandemic equipment. Considering the domestic situation, it should build aplan to import them in an economical and effective manner while encouraging thedevelopment of the domestic pharmaceutical industry. The Ministries of Finance, Planning and Investment, Health, Science and Technology and the VietnamSocial Security must actively deal with suggestions by localities, medicalestablishments and enterprises regarding procurement mechanism and payment./.
In addition to speeding up vaccinations against COVID-19 in the remaining months of this year, localities must build plans for the inoculation in 2022, Deputy Minister of Health Do Xuan Tuyen has said.
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The PM called for closer, broader, and more effective cooperation with Vietnamese partners, guided by the principles of mutual benefit, joint efforts, shared outcomes, and common development, including promoting stronger public-private partnerships and collaboration with businesses.
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The groundbreaking ceremony took place one day after the VNVC Vaccine JS Company and Sanofi Group exchanged cooperation documents on vaccine production technology transfer under the witness of State President Luong Cuong and French President Emmanuel Macron.
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Under the agreement, VNVC and Sanofi will gradually implement technology transfers to enable domestic production of several key Sanofi vaccines that are widely used in Vietnam. In addition, Sanofi will support VNVC in training human resources and quality management in vaccine research and manufacturing.
Despite the ongoing global circulation and unpredictable developments of SARS-CoV-2, the World Health Organisation (WHO) hasn’t issued new warnings about COVID-19, said the Ministry of Health.
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Deputy PM Vu Duc Dam. (Photo: baochinhphu.vn) 
Source: VNA 
