Coronavirus: Côte d'Ivoire to launch vaccination campaign on Monday
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Côte d'Ivoire on Monday launches its vaccination campaign against COVID-19, after receiving 505,000 syringes and 504,000 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine on Friday, the UN announced on its website.
These vaccines were produced under licence by the Serum Institute of India (SII).
This is the second batch shipped and delivered to Africa under the COVAX mechanism, as part of an unprecedented effort to provide at least two billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine by the end of 2021.
"Côte d'Ivoire is pleased and proud to be the second African country after Ghana to benefit from the vaccines provided through the COVAX facility. This is an important step in our common fight against the common enemy, that is, COVID-19," the Ivorian Minister of Health and Public Hygiene, Dr. Eugène Aka Aouélé, said.
More than 32,000 people living in Côte d'Ivoire have been infected by the disease, which has killed 188 people.
The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) is working to monitor the vaccines in the supply chain from the factory gate to each country's ports of entry.
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