More AstraZeneca donations coming
JEMIMA BEUKES
WINDHOEK
Namibia is expected to receive 500 000 doses of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines from a friendly country by the end of August, while the delivery date for 40 800 AstraZeneca doses paid for through the controversial Covax facility keeps changing.
This was confirmed by health ministry executive director Ben Nangombe yesterday.
Namibia is still waiting for the Pfizer vaccine donated by the United States government to be delivered through Covax, as well as Johnson and Johnson vaccines procured through the African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team.
At present, the country is pushing its vaccination roll-out campaign with 250 000 Sinopharm doses bought from China and 75 000 AstraZeneca doses donated from the government of the Netherlands.
In March, the Indian government donated 30 000 Covishield AstraZeneca vaccines and the government received 67 200 doses out of 108 000 paid for through the Covax facility.
These AstraZeneca doses, however, are reserved only for second doses for the over 70 000 Namibians whose second jabs were outstanding for more than three months since the first batch ran out earlier this year.
Encouraging
By 14 August, a total of 185 873 people received one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, while 78 846 had received two doses.
Of these, 51 052 received two doses of Sinopharm and 27 794 received two doses of AstraZeneca.
Since the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020, the country has recorded a total of 122 545 cases, of which 3 840 are still active and 3 285 died.
Since the resumption of the vaccination outreach, 399 people have been given their second dose of AstraZeneca.
Nangombe described the pace of vaccination as encouraging as more people are making their way to vaccination points.
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WINDHOEK
Namibia is expected to receive 500 000 doses of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines from a friendly country by the end of August, while the delivery date for 40 800 AstraZeneca doses paid for through the controversial Covax facility keeps changing.
This was confirmed by health ministry executive director Ben Nangombe yesterday.
Namibia is still waiting for the Pfizer vaccine donated by the United States government to be delivered through Covax, as well as Johnson and Johnson vaccines procured through the African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team.
At present, the country is pushing its vaccination roll-out campaign with 250 000 Sinopharm doses bought from China and 75 000 AstraZeneca doses donated from the government of the Netherlands.
In March, the Indian government donated 30 000 Covishield AstraZeneca vaccines and the government received 67 200 doses out of 108 000 paid for through the Covax facility.
These AstraZeneca doses, however, are reserved only for second doses for the over 70 000 Namibians whose second jabs were outstanding for more than three months since the first batch ran out earlier this year.
Encouraging
By 14 August, a total of 185 873 people received one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, while 78 846 had received two doses.
Of these, 51 052 received two doses of Sinopharm and 27 794 received two doses of AstraZeneca.
Since the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020, the country has recorded a total of 122 545 cases, of which 3 840 are still active and 3 285 died.
Since the resumption of the vaccination outreach, 399 people have been given their second dose of AstraZeneca.
Nangombe described the pace of vaccination as encouraging as more people are making their way to vaccination points.
[email protected]
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