Vietnam Approves Cuban-made Abdala Vaccine, This Is The Eighth Vaccine Approved By The Country

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JAKARTA - Vietnam approved the use of the Cuban-made Abdala COVID-19 vaccine against the worst outbreak of the coronavirus. The approval was announced on Saturday, hours after Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc left Hanoi for an official visit to Cuba. this country to deal with COVID-19," the Vietnamese government said in a statement. This year.

Abdala is the eighth COVID-19 vaccine approved for use in Vietnam. The country has one of the lowest vaccination rates in Southeast Asia. Only 6.3 percent of its 98 million population has been fully vaccinated. Vietnam has so far recorded 667,650 cases of infection and 16,637 deaths, most of them reported during the Delta variant outbreak that emerged since late April. adhere to communism. The other three countries are China, Laos and North Korea. Vietnam in July urged the United States to end their "hostile" policies towards Cuba and lift a decades-old trade embargo with the country. The push came after anti-government protests broke out. in Cuba, a rare occurrence in the island nation in the Caribbean Sea.