US sends Vietnam 2 million Covid vaccine doses

Moderna

The United States sent Vietnam two million doses of Covid-19 vaccine Tuesday, the White House said, in its latest assistance to countries struggling to tame the pandemic. The Moderna vaccine shipment -- part of a first 80 million doses that President Joe Biden has pledged to allocate worldwide -- should arrive in Vietnam this weekend, a White House official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP. ‘This is just the beginning of doses being shipped to southeast Asia,’ the official said. A million doses went to Malaysia on Monday and last week the White House announced delivery ‘soon’ of four million doses to Indonesia.