Africa-Press – Mozambique. Mozambique receives enough Covid-19 vaccines this week to vaccinate about one million people, according to donor announcements.
On Monday, a batch of 840,000 doses of Janssen’s single-dose vaccine was being delivered by the US as part of the Covax initiative supporting international immunisation.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) announced that with this donation, Mozambique has now received five million doses out of a total of 12.5 million planned for the country under the initiative – that is 40% delivered.
Argentina announced the donation to Mozambique of 450,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19, which requires two doses.
The delivery will be formalised on Friday, said a statement cited by Mozambique’s news agency (AIM).
According to the latest figures from the Mozambican health authorities, around 6 million people have been inoculated in the country, of which 3.3 million have been fully vaccinated, or a fifth of the 17 million people expected to be vaccinated by the end of 2022.
Mozambique is experiencing a period of low transmission of Covid-19 in all provinces, with a total of 1,938 deaths and 151,488 cases by Monday, 98% of which have recovered from the disease.
Covid-19 has caused at least 5,144,573 deaths worldwide, among more than 256.54 million infections by the new coronavirus recorded since the start of the pandemic, according to the most recent assessment by the agency France-Presse.
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