340,000 doses of COVAX vaccines due in Rwanda today
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Air freight carrying the AstraZeneca/Oxford SII vaccines supplied through the COVAX Facility arrives in Kigali. Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines expected to arrive later today.
KIGALI, 03 March 2021 – Health workers and other priority populations vulnerable to COVID-19 can now expect to receive life-saving coronavirus vaccines in Rwanda as 240,000 doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines licensed and manufactured by the Serum Institute of India were delivered by UNICEF on behalf of the COVAX Facility.
Rwanda is also set to receive 102,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine later today as part of the distribution of 1.2 million doses procured from the manufacturer by COVAX, becoming the first African country to receive these vaccines through COVAX.
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Richer countries in Europe should help countries in the Global South access vaccines needed to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the European Union’s bishops.
LEICESTER, United Kingdom – Richer countries in Europe should help countries in the Global South access vaccines needed to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the European Union’s bishops.
In a joint statement from COMECE – which presents the bishops’ conferences of the EU’s member states – and Caritas Europa, Catholic leaders noted that richer countries in Europe can “increasingly see a light at the end of the tunnel” and a presumptive end to the health and economic catastrophe caused by the pandemic.
50,000 COVID-19 Vaccines By April Dr Waqainabete said the ministry was working with digitalFIJI on the vaccination registration for the vaccinated population once the vaccines are rolled out. by inoke rabonu
2021-04-03
The Ministry of Health and Medical Services is hoping to receive more than 50, 000 doses in the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines by April this year.
This was revealed by Minister for Health and Medical Services Dr Ifereimi Waqainabete yesterday.
Dr Waqainabete said the ministry was working with digitalFIJI on the vaccination registration for the vaccinated population once the vaccines are rolled out.
“The vaccines will arrive in batches and the first batch that will arrive within the first quarter of this year. We are hoping to get more than 50,000 doses,