Coronavirus: US to give Vietnam 1 million more vaccine shots as record cases reported

The United States will donate an additional 1 million coronavirus vaccines to Vietnam, US Vice-President Kamala Harris said on Wednesday during her trip to Hanoi, as she pledged to aid the Southeast Asian nation in boosting its inoculation rates.The first batch of the Pfizer-BioNTech shots will begin arriving in 24 hours, she said. The latest US donation brought the total to 6 million so far.This came as Vietnam’s health ministry reported a record 12,096 new Covid-19 cases and 348 deaths on…

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