(June 5): Japan is planning to provide Covid-19 vaccines to Vietnam in response to a request from the Southeast Asian nation, public broadcaster NHK reported Saturday, without attribution. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s administration aims to dispatch the vaccines as soon as this month, the report said, adding that the provision would be made outside the Covax initiative, the World Health Organization-backed effort to buy and distribute vaccines to low- and middle-income nations.
