Ivory Coast: first delivery of free anti-Covid vaccines Covax
The free anti-Covid vaccines from the Covax device arrived on Friday February 26 in Abidjan.
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Côte d'Ivoire is the second country on the continent to have received free coronavirus vaccines under the Covax program.
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With our correspondent in Abidjan,
Pierre Pinto
The device landed on the Abidjan tarmac around noon on Friday with 500,000 doses of the
AstraZeneca vaccine on board
, provided as part of the Covax initiative.
The delivery was well received.
At the foot of the plane, the Minister of Health, that of Foreign Affairs, the Secretary General of the Presidency as well as many ambassadors were present.
Everyone welcomed the return of multilateralism embodied in this program set up by
the World Health Organization (WHO)
and the Global Alliance for the Gavi vaccine.
Funded by Europe and the United States for three quarters, the program is intended to produce free vaccines against Covid-19 to low and middle income countries.
Côte d'Ivoire is the second country in the world to receive its delivery of anti-Covid vaccines by the Covax initiative after
Ghana.
On the other hand,
the country will be the first in the Covax program to launch its vaccination campaign, which begins on Monday.
This campaign will initially target health personnel, then the defense and security forces as well as the most vulnerable people will be concerned.
The stated objective is to vaccinate 5 million people, or 20% of the population in the coming months.
► To (re) read: Covid-19: Ghana receives the world's first delivery of free vaccines
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