Rwanda: the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 continues
Rwanda Biomedical Center medical staff in Kigali testing for Covid-19, July 28, 2020. AP
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More than 250,000 people received a first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine in Rwanda in a week.
The country launched a vaccination campaign on Friday, March 5, after receiving around 340,000 doses as part of the Covax initiative, mainly from the Astra-Zeneca laboratory but also from the Pfizer laboratory.
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With our correspondent in Kigali,
Laure Broulard
For a week, the photos of injections follow one another in the media.
There were first the caregivers and the elderly, then prisoners, refugees, some motorcycle taxis but also the staff of the national airline, RwandAir as well as that of the hotels who will welcome the delegates of the chiefs meeting. of the Commonwealth State, scheduled for Kigali, in June.
Paul Kagame also received a dose, becoming the first president of East Africa to announce his vaccination.
Rwanda is the first African country to administer the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine which needs to be stored at very low temperature.
The country had acquired specific refrigerators for this purpose a few months ago.
The transfer of 100,000 doses from the airport to the storage hangar was very delicate but it was a success, blows a source within the Ministry of Health.
Rwanda, which has implemented some of the strictest measures on the continent to fight against the coronavirus, hopes to vaccinate 60% of its population by the end of 2022.
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