With the latest shipment of Pfizer vaccine doses that arrived at Kigali International Airport on Saturday 15th January 2022, the contribution of US to Rwanda’s response to COVID-19 has reached Rwf28 billion.
Following the delivery of new doses, the US Ambassador in Rwanda, Peter H. Vrooman said that his country is honored to continue partnership with Rwanda to defeat the pandemic.
“4 Million vaccine doses! With last night’s new shipment of more than 1 million doses, the United States celebrates with Rwanda our continued partnership to fight COVID-19,” he tweeted on Sunday.
So far, US has donated a total of 4,296,450 COVID-19 vaccine doses to Rwanda.
Since the start of the pandemic, the United States has stood side-by-side with the Rwandan people committing nearly Rwf30 billion to combat COVID-19. The United States has pledged to donate at least 1.1 billion doses of COVID-19 doses globally by 2023.
US has also helped Rwanda to renovate three hospitals, donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and medical supplies, X-ray machines, and other equipment to fight COVID-19.
Other US COVID-19 support to Rwanda include state-of-the-art ventilators; construction of handwashing stations across Rwanda; public communications to fight COVID-19; vehicles to support contact tracing; patient monitors, hospital beds, and intensive care unit equipment; and other supplies such as biohazard bags, alcohol and hand washing soap.
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