Luanda - Angola Saturday received a batch of 801,425 doses of vaccines from Pfizer, donated by the United States of America (USA), to contribute to the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.
With this donation, it rises to more than six million doses that the government of the United States of America gave to the African country.
At the occasion, the Secretary of State for Public Health, Franco Mufinda, reaffirmed that at this moment the country has a stock of about 26 million doses of all types of vaccines validated by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The next challenge of the Ministry of Health is to vaccinate, with the second dose, more than seven million people nationwide, through mobile brigades, health units and High Performance Vaccination Posts, in all municipalities.
"Now our eligible population is 12 years and above of this age. We appeal for the correct use of the mask, frequent hand washing with water or disinfection with alcohol and physical distancing between people," he reiterated.
Besides the Secretary of State for Public Health, Franco Mufinda, the ceremony of delivery of the donation coming via the Covax initiative, was attended by UNICEF's Deputy Representative in Angola, Kateryna Lytvynenko.
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