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Tanzania poised to join COVAX vaccine-sharing facility - WHO
Omar Mohammed
June 17, 202111:10 AM EDTLast Updated a day ago
NAIROBI, June 17 (Reuters) - Tanzania is working to join the COVAX global vaccine-sharing facility and will sit down with aid agencies next week to plan its first national COVID inoculation campaign, World Health Organization officials said on Thursday.
The East African country has been racing to catch up with COVID programmes across the continent since the death of its COVID-sceptic and vaccine-sceptic president John Magufuli in March.
The government has signalled it is now taking the disease seriously. But it remains one of only four African nations that have not started a national vaccination drive, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
"We have received information that Tanzania is now formally working to join the COVAX facility," the WHO's regional director for Africa Matshidiso Moeti told a news conference.
The first vaccines under the scheme could arrive in a couple of weeks, Richard Mihigo from the WHO's Immunization and Vaccines Development Programme in Africa told the same briefing...
Tanzania poised to join COVAX vaccine-sharing facility - WHO
Omar Mohammed
June 17, 202111:10 AM EDTLast Updated a day ago
NAIROBI, June 17 (Reuters) - Tanzania is working to join the COVAX global vaccine-sharing facility and will sit down with aid agencies next week to plan its first national COVID inoculation campaign, World Health Organization officials said on Thursday.
The East African country has been racing to catch up with COVID programmes across the continent since the death of its COVID-sceptic and vaccine-sceptic president John Magufuli in March.
The government has signalled it is now taking the disease seriously. But it remains one of only four African nations that have not started a national vaccination drive, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
"We have received information that Tanzania is now formally working to join the COVAX facility," the WHO's regional director for Africa Matshidiso Moeti told a news conference.
The first vaccines under the scheme could arrive in a couple of weeks, Richard Mihigo from the WHO's Immunization and Vaccines Development Programme in Africa told the same briefing...