The development was announced by the Minister of Health, Dr. Daniel Ngamije on Wednesday 8th December 2021 via Twitter handle.
“Today, Rwanda achieves its Covid-19 vaccination target of covering 30% of the total population with 2 doses by the end of 2021. The objective is 70% by December 2022 (Latest!). This milestone is highly attributed to Leadership, Partnership, Coordination and Community engagement,” he revealed.
Prime Minister, Dr. Edouard Ngirente recently told parliamentarians that Rwanda has so far administered COVID-19 vaccine doses to 6,065,691 (46%) of the total population including recipients of one dose.
Among others, he revealed that the country has received 12,900,760 COVID-19 vaccine doses since the inoculation program was rolled out countrywide in March 2021.
Premier Ngirente said that the number of COVID-19 vaccine recipients are expected to reach 9,063,245 next year, following the country’s commitment to start administering vaccines to people in the age bracket between 12 and 17.
“All these people will have been vaccinated by December 2022 but we might hit the number before in consideration of expended efforts,” he revealed.
In Kigali City alone, more than 869,000 dwellers (89.2%) aged 12 and above have received two doses of COVID-19 vaccine while 1,032,499 have received the first dose.
The vaccination efforts in the remaining parts of the country have seen 2,755,727 (34%) people fully vaccinated while 62% have received the first dose of COVID-19.
Rwanda has been administering eight types of COVID-19 vaccines. As at 2nd December 2021, the country had received 12,900,760 doses that can be used to vaccinate 6,736,220 people excluding the booster dose.
Rwanda received the doses through COVAX, a global initiative aimed at ensuring equitable distribution of vaccines, direct purchases while others were donated by partner countries.
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