Japan to donate $3.8 million to Mozambique to invest in transportation equipment and refrigerated storage of covid-19 vaccinesannounced this Thursday in a press release.

With the support "an effective and safe system for covid-19 vaccines can be established and the pandemic brought under control," the diplomatic office in Maputo said in a statement.

Mozambique will receive more than 1.5 million doses of vaccine against the new coronavirus this month, which will allow accelerating the vaccination plan in the country, announced on Wednesday the Minister of Health, Armindo Tiago.

Mozambique received in March a first donation of 200,000 doses of vaccine offered by China, followed by a reinforcement of 100,000 doses offered by India and 384,000 by the Covax mechanism, an initiative promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in favor of vaccination in poor countries.

On Wednesday, 500,000 vaccines ordered by the private sector arrived, of which 139,000 were offered to the Ministry of Health.

The government's goal is to have vaccinated, by the year 2022, all adults, about 16 million people, a little over half of the Mozambican population.

The country has seen an increase in the number of cases, deaths and hospitalizations this month, after a slowdown between March and May.