{"id":8497,"date":"2021-11-05T16:37:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T16:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/?p=8497"},"modified":"2021-11-05T15:53:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T15:53:02","slug":"portugal-donates-covid-19-vaccines-to-mozambique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/portugal-donates-covid-19-vaccines-to-mozambique","title":{"rendered":"Portugal donates Covid-19 vaccines to Mozambique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>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).<\/p>\n<p>Since the Astro-Zeneca vaccine requires two doses to become fully effective, the Portuguese donation is enough to vaccinate completely 93,600 people.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on behalf of the Minister of Health, the Minister of Public Works, Joao Machatine, said that today\u2019s donation added to 200,000 other doses delivered last week will definitely leverage the vaccination rollout drive under way. \u201cThey will enable the health authorities to fully immunise many citizens\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe 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,\u201d Machatine said.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s public health and ensure that an ever larger number of citizens have access to the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that Portugal has earmarked five per cent of its vaccines for the Portuguese Speaking African Countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\">Mozambique<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":8495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12,16],"tags":[233,281,283],"class_list":["post-8497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mozambique","tag-mozambique"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Portugal donates Covid-19 vaccines to Mozambique - Mozambique<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mozambique received on Thursday in Maputo a consignment from Portugal, consisting of 187,200 doses of AstraZeneca vaccin ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/portugal-donates-covid-19-vaccines-to-mozambique\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Portugal donates Covid-19 vaccines to Mozambique\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mozambique received on Thursday in Maputo a consignment from Portugal, consisting of 187,200 doses of AstraZeneca vaccin ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/portugal-donates-covid-19-vaccines-to-mozambique\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mozambique\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-11-05T16:37:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2021\/11\/img-618553405054d.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/portugal-donates-covid-19-vaccines-to-mozambique#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/portugal-donates-covid-19-vaccines-to-mozambique\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Portugal donates Covid-19 vaccines to Mozambique\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-05T16:37:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/portugal-donates-covid-19-vaccines-to-mozambique\"},\"wordCount\":221,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/portugal-donates-covid-19-vaccines-to-mozambique#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2021\/11\/img-618553405054d.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Mozambique\",\"Mozambique\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/portugal-donates-covid-19-vaccines-to-mozambique#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/portugal-donates-covid-19-vaccines-to-mozambique\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/portugal-donates-covid-19-vaccines-to-mozambique\",\"name\":\"Portugal donates Covid-19 vaccines to Mozambique - 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