Africa-Press – Lesotho. The director of the ‘mother and child’ department in the Ministry of Health Dr. ‘Makhoase Ranyali pointed out that vaccination has continued in health centers, churches and chiefs’ offices in various districts across the country.
Ranyali made the remarks at a press conference held at the branch headquarters on Thursday. He said the Johnson & Johnson vaccine drops are declining, and said that this week it vaccinated 586,322 people when they completed the vaccination with 34,517 AstraZeneca drops.
“Sinopharm vaccine continue vaccination and there are already 1,400 people who have vaccinated twice. The total number of people who have vaccinated nationwide is 622, 239, which means that the vaccines are declining, ”Ranyali explained.
He pointed out that the Ministry of Health, on 07 May this year, received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine with the help of a South African government and it was not over, saying there were 151,200 drops left to be received. on 23 May this year they also seem to have been very active as the community is vaccinating in large numbers.
Commenting on when these vaccines expire, Ranyali said there were drops of Johnson & Johnson vaccine expiring by the end of November and they are very proud that only 210 drops remain, of which they can also disappear at any time depending on the way the community is vaccinated.
He said the remaining 107,423 drops of the vaccine in the country at health facilities were the remaining 24,000 in storage in the Ministry of Health.
“The Sinopharm dual vaccine has 198,911 drops left and expires in June 2023 and is being vaccinated in Maseru district at Domiciliary Health and Mafeteng Hospital,” he said.
He said there were some people who said that when the AstraZeneca vaccine was left behind they were vaccinated in the first phase and the expectation was that they would repeat the second phase in the next month as they were waiting for 9,600 drops to arrive soon.
French national aid as intended to vaccinate people will just repeat. “Earlier this month, another Johnson & Johnson vaccine will produce 151,200 drops from the African Union (AU) and another 168,000 drops from the United States.
The Pfizer vaccine drops are also expected to reach 106, 200 as next week as two vaccines for people 16 years and older, ”he said. Dr Ranyali emphasized that vaccination cards were now available at most centers, adding that those who had not yet received their visas could approach the vaccinations.
“We expect the community who went on vaccination abroad to come into this vaccination camp so that they can be counted as vaccinated people.
The recommendation is for them to get closer to the health facilities, especially the Ministry of Health in the districts so that they can get out of the cage, ”said the mayor.
Meanwhile, Ministry of Health Correspondent Ms ‘Mateboho Mosebekoa, presenting Covid’s status this week 43, compared to last week, said that 6,250 people tested in the 42nd week and 5,000 this week’ and the total was 2308,402.
He pointed out that the number of infected last week was 52 while this week it has dropped to 48 ‘and the total number of infected people has risen to 21635.
“Last week’s recovery was 192 while this week rose to 225 and overall to 12,485, and the situation has improved significantly.
New deaths last week were 72 while this week was 65. Last week’s death toll was one person this week, ”Mosebekoa explains. He went on to show that the prevalence of infection last week was 0.8% and this week it was 0.9%.
He said the prevalence of travelers at border crossings across the country last week totaled 12,914 and in addition, 12,568 were uninfected and 8 were infected this week.
and a total of 13,291 travelers were screened, of which 13,240 were infected and 18 were infected. ” The number of patients admitted to hospitals last week was 29 this week, 35, the number of seriously ill last week was 4 and this week 3, ”Mosebekoa said.
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