Mozambique will no longer receive 200,000 doses of vaccines against covid-19 promised by Portugal, according to an announcement by the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). The donation was scheduled for tomorrow (Friday), but that European country has committed to do so at another date, depending on the existing doses in Mozambique.

In a note the ministry states that "the next donation to Mozambique of vaccines against covid-19 will be timely scheduled, in articulation with the [Mozambican] authorities." Currently, Mozambique is prioritizing vaccinations with the vaccines it has.

From Portugal, Mozambique has already received 547 thousand doses of vaccine.

Recall that just this week (Monday), Mozambique received about two million doses of vaccine against covid-19 from Johnson and Johnson (Janssen), a batch of the global Covax initiative.

According to the latest data from the Ministry of Health, about 6.8 million people have already been inoculated, of which 4.3 million are fully vaccinated, or a quarter of the 17 million that are intended to be vaccinated by the end of 2022.

Mozambique has a cumulative total of 1,941 deaths and 152,326 covid-19 cases, of which 98% recovered and eight hospitalized.

The number of cases is rising since the first week of December, but with no increase in hospitalizations or recorded deaths - the last covid-19-associated death was recorded on November 28.

Source: vision