Japan will donate $3.8 million to Mozambique to invest in transportation equipment and refrigerated storage of covid-19 vaccines, it announced Thursday in a statement.
With the support “it will be possible to establish an effective and safe system for vaccines against covid-19 and control the pandemic,” the diplomatic office in Maputo said in a statement.
Mozambique will receive more than 1.5 million doses of vaccine against the new coronavirus this month, which will allow accelerating the vaccination plan in the country, Health Minister Armindo Tiago announced on Wednesday.
Mozambique received in March an initial donation of 200,000 doses of vaccine offered by China, followed by a reinforcement of 100,000 doses offered by India and 384,000 by the Covax mechanism, an initiative promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in favor of vaccination of poor countries.
On Wednesday, 500,000 vaccines ordered by the private sector arrived, of which 139,000 were offered to the Ministry of Health.
The government’s goal is to have vaccinated, by the year 2022, all adults, about 16 million people, a little over half of the Mozambican population.
The country has seen an increase in the number of cases, deaths and hospitalizations this month, after a slowdown between March and May.
