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The National Covid-19 Vaccination Plan is finally to be made public. The National Covid-19 Vaccination Plan is finally to be made public. Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosário will launch the Covid-19 vaccination program, at 3:00 p.m. this Friday, in Maputo city.
According to a press release from the prime minister’s press office, the National Covid-19 Vaccination Plan has as its main goal “providing guidelines for the prioritised implementation of vaccination against Covid-19 in a safe and effective manner, ensuring equality and quality in the vaccination offer”.
The plan will be revealed less than three days before the national vaccination campaign, covering, in its first phase, only health system professionals, is due to start.
Mozambique took delivery of 200,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine, donated by China, on February 24. The vaccine, to be taken in two doses, is produced by the Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinopharm, and has an efficiency of 79.3%.
So far, it is not known exactly how many health professionals will be vaccinated. What we do know is that the Ministry of Health has allocated a total of 121,530 doses to the country’s 11 provinces, which corresponds to 60,765 people being inoculated.
“The introduction of the vaccine, to alleviate the negative impact on the health and socio-economic system of the Covid-19 pandemic, represents a national priority,” the press release asserts, stressing that vaccination is complementary to prevention, and so “non-pharmacological prevention measures (such as the use of masks, hand washing, disinfection and physical distancing) must be maintained”.
The coronavirus which causes Covid-19 had by Thursday infected 61,170 people in Mozambique, of whom 674 have lost their lives and 4.282 are accounted fully recovered.
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