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Somalia has joined the growing list of countries to receive the COVID-19 vaccines, under the COVAX initiative which aims to ensure fair and equitable access of all nations to the pandemic-beating solution.
A consignment of 300,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine arrived at Aden Abdulle International Airport in Mogadishu, and was received in the presence of high-level officials of the Federal Ministry of Health and the United Nations in Somalia.
The United Nations Secretary-General s Special Representative for Somalia, James Swan, hailed the Somali authorities for their sustained efforts to combat COVID-19 and pledged the world body’s continuing support to roll out a nationwide vaccination campaign to contain the spread of the pandemic. “We commend the Somali Federal Government and Federal Member States for efforts over the past year to combat the pandemic through education, through preventive measures, through improved health services,” he said.
COVID-19 vaccines: arrival and rollout in Somalia: 300,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for frontline workers and the most vulnerable
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Mogadishu – Efforts to protect Somalis during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic stepped up today with the arrival of the first shipment of 300,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. The first consignment of vaccines targets, as recommended by the COVID-19 National Task Force, the country’s frontline workers, elderly and people with chronic health conditions and it aims to reduce deaths and diseases caused by COVID-19.
Overall, Somalia has secured enough vaccines from the COVAX Facility to vaccinate at least 20 per cent of its population, in phases. The COVAX Facility seeks to accelerate the development and manufacturing of COVID-19 vaccines, and to guarantee fair and equitable access for every country in the world. The Government of Somalia is also in the process of assessing ways to provide vaccines for more pe
The Health Ministry will distribute Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines to Somali health authorities.
Mogadishu (PP News Desk) A plane carrying the first batch COVID-19 vaccines arrived in Mogadishu earlier today.
“At last our effort to secure vaccines have borne fruit. We expect more batches of the vaccine to arrive. The vaccination will begin tomorrow 16 May. Frontline health workers will be vaccinated first. We must observe preventive measures such as social distancing and washing hands regularly” said Fowsiya Abikar, the Somali Minister for Health who, with UNSOM Chief, James Swan, was at Mogadishu International Airport to witness the delivery of vaccines.
Fowsiya Abikar: “We must observe preventive measures such as social distancing and washing hands regularly.”
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