Viet Nam approves Janssen COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use

The Ministry of Health has decided to approve Janssen COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in Viet Nam.

This is a multi-dose vial which contains 5 doses.

One dose (0.5 mL) contains: Adenovirus type 26 encoding the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein* (Ad26.COV2-S), not less than 8.92 log10 infectious units (Inf.U).

Janssen COVID-19 vaccine is the sixth vaccine approved after the U.S.’s Moderna, Russia's Sputnik V and those made by the U.S.'s Pfizer and Germany's BioNTech, China's Sinopharm and British-Swedish firm AstraZeneca.