Rwanda receives more than 100,000 Pfizer COVID-19 doses

By Grace Kuria

Rwanda now has an additional batch of 100,600 doses of COVID-19 Pfizer vaccines thanks to COVAX.

U Rwanda rwaraye rwakiriye izindi doze zigera ku 100,600 z’urukingo rwa Pfizer binyuze muri gahunda ya COVAX. #Tuzatsinda #COVID19 #InkingoNiUbuzima #Sindohoka pic.twitter.com/KSdLvDf3Fw

— Ministry of Health | Rwanda (@RwandaHealth) June 1, 2021

Rwanda on Saturday began its second phase of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination.

A total of 167,686 people have thus far received their second dose of the vaccine.

In a statement, Rwanda’s ministry of health said “following a successful rollout of a COVID-19 vaccination campaign that saw 350,400 people inoculated.

Rwanda will start a new nationwide vaccination drive to fully immunize those who had previously received first doses of AstraZeneca vaccine.”

The country has thus far recorded 27,008 positive coronavirus cases and354 deaths.