{"id":24390,"date":"2021-03-03T18:19:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T18:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?p=24390"},"modified":"2021-03-03T18:19:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T18:19:01","slug":"rwanda-receives-first-consignment-of-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/rwanda-receives-first-consignment-of-covid-19-vaccine","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda receives first consignment of Covid -19 vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AfricaPress-Tanzania:<\/strong> Rwanda has on Wednesday March 3, received its first consignment of COVID-19 vaccines trough the COVAX initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The first batch of 240,000 doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine arrived at Kigali Airport on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released by the country\u2019s Health Minister, Dr Daniel Ngamije, Rwanda will immediately roll out vaccination plan, which will see target risk groups across Rwanda receive their first of two vaccine doses.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the vaccination exercise will be rolled out on Friday, March 5, with respective recipients of the shots being invited directly to their District Hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe target is to vaccinate 30 per cent of the population by the end of 2021, and 60 per cent by the end of 2022,\u201d reads the statement.<\/p>\n<p>The statement further added: With each recipient receiving two doses for full protection, the AstraZeneca-Oxford &amp; Pfizer vaccines will be used to vaccinate a total of 171,480 people identified as priority risk groups, including frontline workers, and those above 65 years old or with underlying health conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organisation (WHO) has commended\u00a0 Rwanda&#8217;s efforts saying, \u201cRwanda has responded to the Covid-19 outbreak with determination to suppress circulation of the virus and save lives.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Kasonde Mwinga, WHO Rwanda Country Representative. further added: These doses of Covid-19 vaccine from the Covax facility represent an unprecedented global effort to have equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Tanzania: Rwanda has on Wednesday March 3, received its first consignment of COVID-19 vaccines trough the COVAX initiative. The first batch of 240,000 doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine arrived at Kigali Airport on Wednesday morning. In a statement released by the country\u2019s Health Minister, Dr Daniel Ngamije, Rwanda will immediately roll out vaccination plan, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":24393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,2565,7,8],"tags":[2322,453,7520],"class_list":["post-24390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-coronavirus-in-tanzania","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","tag-covid-19","tag-rwanda","tag-vaccines"],"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>Rwanda receives first consignment of Covid -19 vaccine - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rwanda has on Wednesday March 3, received its first consignment of COVID-19 vaccines trough the COVAX initiative.The first batch of 240,000\" \/>\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\/tanzania\/community\/rwanda-receives-first-consignment-of-covid-19-vaccine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rwanda receives first consignment of Covid -19 vaccine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rwanda has on Wednesday March 3, received its first consignment of COVID-19 vaccines trough the COVAX initiative.The first batch of 240,000\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/rwanda-receives-first-consignment-of-covid-19-vaccine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-03T18:19:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/03\/vaccines.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1160\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"652\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/rwanda-receives-first-consignment-of-covid-19-vaccine#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/rwanda-receives-first-consignment-of-covid-19-vaccine\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Rwanda receives first consignment of Covid -19 vaccine\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-03T18:19:01+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/rwanda-receives-first-consignment-of-covid-19-vaccine\"},\"wordCount\":231,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/rwanda-receives-first-consignment-of-covid-19-vaccine#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/03\/vaccines.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"COVID-19\",\"Rwanda\",\"vaccines\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"Coronavirus in Tanzania\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/rwanda-receives-first-consignment-of-covid-19-vaccine#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/rwanda-receives-first-consignment-of-covid-19-vaccine\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/rwanda-receives-first-consignment-of-covid-19-vaccine\",\"name\":\"Rwanda receives first consignment of Covid -19 vaccine - 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