“Effective from 08.08.2022, the booster dose will be administered at all vaccination sites focusing on members of the elderly aged above 60 and others with low body immunity,” reads a statement released by the Ministry of Health.

Figures from the ministry show that a total of 8,870,113 people (97.9%) have so far received two doses of COVID-19 while 5,269,254 (58.1%) received the first booster dose.

Among others, the country has registered 1466 COVID-19 deaths since the pandemic emerged in March 2020.

The types of vaccines used to administer booster doses include Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna among others.

Rwanda will start administering the second booster dose effective from Monday 8th August 2022.