Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Monday tasked the Military Medicine Academy to work with relevant institutions and agencies to draft a vaccine research and development center project and submit to competent authorities for approval. 

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc presides over a meeting on Covid-19 vaccine
research and development in Ha Noi on December 21, 2020. Photo: VGP

The center will be responsible for developing vaccines for infectious diseases in humans, the Government chief said.

Regarding Covid-19 vaccines, PM Phuc called for maximum and timely support for local vaccine producers.

Data last updated by WHO: 2020/12/21, 9:42am CET

The Ministry of Health was tasked to learn foreign countries’ experience in clinical trials in order to speed up human trials of Nanocovax - one of the four vaccines under research and development in Viet Nam. 

Phuc also ordered subordinate levels to continue sustaining vigilance in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic even when vaccines are available.

As of 6:05 pm on December 21, Viet Nam confirmed 1,414 infection cases, including 1,269 recoveries and 35 deaths./.