Africa-Press – Mozambique. Mozambique received on Thursday in Maputo a consignment from Portugal, consisting of 187,200 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines, as part of the Action Plan of Health Response to the Covid-19 pandemic, between Portugal and Portuguese Speaking African Countries (PALOPs).
Since the Astro-Zeneca vaccine requires two doses to become fully effective, the Portuguese donation is enough to vaccinate completely 93,600 people.
Speaking on behalf of the Minister of Health, the Minister of Public Works, Joao Machatine, said that today’s donation added to 200,000 other doses delivered last week will definitely leverage the vaccination rollout drive under way. “They will enable the health authorities to fully immunise many citizens”, he said.
“We would like to encourage Mozambicans to join the vaccination drive underway. The third phase has already been extended to mid-November, after an increase of the number of people seeking to be immunised,” Machatine said.
The Portuguese Minister of Environment and Climate Action, Joao Fernandes, told the ceremony he hopes that the vaccine doses will play a vital role in Mozambique’s public health and ensure that an ever larger number of citizens have access to the vaccine.
He pointed out that Portugal has earmarked five per cent of its vaccines for the Portuguese Speaking African Countries.
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