Africa-Press – Mozambique. Mozambique has vaccinated a million people completely against the new coronavirus, which corresponds to 6.3% of the population over 15 years old, the ministry of health said on Wednesday in a statement.
“Mozambique has 1,076,968 people completely vaccinated,” the ministry said in the document.
According to health authorities, the number of those vaccinated corresponds to 6.3% of the 17 million people, aged over 15 years, expected to be immunised by the end of 2022 under the National Vaccination Plan.
“This achievement is encouraging, given the importance of vaccines to prevent the occurrence of severe forms of the disease and for avoiding deaths due to Covid-19,” the ministry said.
The vaccination process against Covid-19 started in March in Mozambique, covering priority groups including health professionals, police officers and diabetics.
Later, on 4 August, a mass vaccination campaign was launched in the country.
Mozambique saw a considerable reduction in the official indicators of the Covid-19 epidemic during the month of August, in which there were also fewer tests, according to data from the Ministry of Health consulted on Wednesday by Lusa.
The number of deaths fell 24%, or a quarter less than in July, down from 556 to 420 – July was the month with the highest number of deaths in Mozambique since the pandemic was declared, corresponding to the peak of the third wave.
Mozambique has seen 1,866 deaths from Covid-19 and 146,754 cases, 91% of which have recovered from the disease.
