Vanuatu's government is planning to begin the rollout of Covid-19 vaccinations early next month. The country last night received a shipment of 24,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine through the COVAX facility. Vanuatu's Ministry of Health says the doses were sent from Italy and came via Brisbane. The vaccines from UNICEF arrive in Port Vila. Photo: UNICEF The arrival in Port Vila on Wednesday of 24,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine marks the seventh country for vaccines to arrive in the Pacific region through the COVAX Facility in the global partnership's effort to deliver at least two billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of 2021.