Covid-19: in the face of the emergency, Senegal will order the five main vaccines on the market
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur in Dakar are working on samples to search for the coronavirus.
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The Senegalese Vaccination Advisory Committee has given the green light for various licensed vaccines.
Immediately, doses of AstraZeneca and Sinopharm vaccine will be received at the end of February with priority targeting for beneficiaries.
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With our correspondent in Dakar,
Birahim Toure
Wherever they come from, the key is to have doses of the vaccine.
Senegal has put an option on five anti-Covid-19 vaccines available in the world.
The revelation was made by Professor Tandakha Ndiaye Dieye, immunologist, member of the expert group of the Advisory Committee for Vaccination in Senegal who announces that “
the vaccine race
” has already started.
The situation is urgent
These are Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech, Astra Zeneca, Sputnik V and Sinopharm vaccines approved by scientists.
The big equation remains the availability of doses.
Senegal,
pressed by the situation
, will initially, between the end of February and the beginning of March, receive 1.2 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine
thanks to the Covax initiative
of the World Health Organization and 200,000 others from the Chinese laboratory Sinopharm already in the circuit.
3.5 million people, or 20% of its population, are targeted as the first beneficiaries.
An awareness campaign will accompany the operations.
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