Vietnam President proposes solution to secure vaccines for developing countries

(VOVWORLD) - President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Wednesday proposed a number of solutions for developing countries to have access to more COVID-19 vaccines at the Global COVID-19 Summit themed “Ending the Pandemic and Building Back Better".

Vietnam President proposes solution to secure vaccines for developing countries - ảnh 1President Nguyen Xuan Phuc (Photo: VGP)

At the invitation of US President Joe Biden, President Phuc delivered a speech at the Global COVID-19 Summit held on the sidelines of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday (New York time).

He said protecting people's lives and health must be a top priority. To do that, it is necessary to take drastic action for early detection, rapid tracing, timely isolation and effective treatment, strengthening testing capacity, ensuring oxygen, ventilators and treatment drugs, especially quick, large scale vaccination, President Phuc said.

“I welcome the Conference’s decision to establish the Global Health Security Fund, which will contribute to ensuring resources for pandemic response efforts. I think vaccination expansion in parallel with effective drug use is key to defeating the pandemic, protecting people's lives, and promoting economic recovery and development. Vietnam proposes improving research and development capacity for vaccine production, including the creation of vaccine production centers and networks in regions through strengthening production cooperation and technology transfer for developing countries, supporting developing countries to obtain more vaccines, and removing vaccine supply barriers. Vietnam is willing to join these efforts.”

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc announced that Vietnam is implementing a COVID-19 vaccination program for all people over 18 years old. At the regional level, Vietnam and other ASEAN countries established a COVID-19 Response Fund in 2020 and recently decided to use 10.5 million USD from this Fund to buy vaccines for member countries.
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