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France donates over 390,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Rwanda

By IGIHE
On 28 October 2021 at 07:00

Rwanda has received 398,000 Pfizer doses of COVID-19 vaccine from French Government. The shipment of Pfizer doses which arrived at Kigali International Airport on Wednesday 27th October 2021, has been delivered through COVAX, a global initiative aimed at working with vaccine producers to provide countries worldwide with equitable access to safe and effective vaccine.

Upon arrival, the vaccine doses were received by Rwanda’s Minister of Health, Dr. Daniel Ngamije and the ambassador of French to Rwanda, Antoine Anfré.

They are an addition to more 100,000 doses received from France in May 2021 when President Emmanuel Macron visited Rwanda.

A total of 1,942,368 people have been fully vaccinated while 3,735,581 received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine since Rwanda began countrywide inoculation program on 5th March 2021.

Rwanda has ramped up vaccination efforts where the country targets to cover 30% of the population by December this year and 60% by the end of 2022.

The shipment of Pfizer doses arrived at Kigali International Airport on Wednesday 27th October 2021.

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