The Mozambican government on Tuesday ratified donation agreements worth 115 million dollars from the Association for International Development for the purchase of vaccines, the Council of Ministers announced.

The spokesperson for the Council of Ministers, Ludovina Bernardo, told the media that donation agreements aimed at the acquisition of immunizers against covid-19 were signed this month between the Mozambican executive and the International Development Association (IDA), an institution affiliated with the World Bank.

"The Ministry of Health will work on a specific plan to identify the target group that will receive the vaccines and the transfer of the vaccines into the country," Bernardo advanced, speaking at the end of the weekly session of the Council of Ministers.

Also today, the Council of Ministers ratified a third IDA grant of $20 million to create economic opportunities for those displaced by armed violence in the northern province of Cabo Delgado.

The funds will be used to generate economic enterprises in Cabo Delgado and Niassa provinces and Nampula, also in the north of the country, added the Council of Ministers spokesperson, who is also the Minister of Industry and Trade.

Mozambique records a cumulative total of 872 covid-19 deaths and 75,828 cases, of which 93% recovered and 176 hospitalized (68% in Maputo City).

Armed groups have terrorized Cabo Delgado since 2017, with some attacks claimed by the 'jihadist' group Islamic State, in a wave of violence that has led to more than 2,800 deaths according to the ACLED conflict registration project and 732,000 displaced people according to the UN.