“We have received an invitation from the Russian Foreign Ministry to take part in the vaccination against COVID-19 and we believe that this is a very benevolent gesture of Russian friends who care about the health of the embassy staff.

The Vietnamese embassy staff responded with interest to the invitation, ”the embassy said.

They also noted the high qualifications of Russian medical workers who vaccinated.

Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry suggested that all foreign diplomats working in the country be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Some employees of the embassies of Spain and Belarus, as well as most of the employees of the embassy of Mongolia in Russia, were vaccinated with Sputnik V.

In addition, Argentine and Chilean diplomats in Moscow, as well as employees of the Serbian diplomatic mission headed by the Serbian ambassador to Russia Miroslav Lazanski and a number of employees of the Kyrgyz embassy in Moscow, were vaccinated with the Russian drug.