He was appearing on the national broadcaster on Thursday to shed light on status of COVID-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe Government is making possible efforts to get vaccines. In the meantime, people are encouraged to continue adhering to instituted containment measures,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Dr. Ngamije explained that Rwanda awaits 3,500,000 vaccines to be acquired through existing partnership with Pfizer-BioNTech. <\/p>\n
He said that delivery of these vaccines which started last week continues until December 2021. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe have started receiving some of these vaccine doses but we are undergoing discussions to have remaining doses delivered sooner as per existing agreements,\u201d he revealed. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe also have agreements to receive over 2,100,000 vaccines from Johnson & Johnson, vaccine producer. We are waiting for confirmation of delivery dates but all expected doses won\u2019t arrive before December,\u201d added Dr. Ngamije. <\/p>\n
Rwanda is planning to spend over Rwf4 billion to import oxygen plants to increase local production in response to the recent spike in coronavirus infections leading to hospitalisation. <\/p>\n
Previously, Rwanda had seven oxygen plants with the capacity to produce 230 (50 liters each) cylinders per day and 7000 cylinders of oxygen per month. <\/p>\n
Rwanda has so far vaccinated 392,003 people and targets to cover 60% of its population by June 2022. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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