The country wants to vaccinate 100,000 people daily and reach 7.8 million by December

To achieve the goal, the government official said, health authorities need to immunize 100,000 people daily, urging citizens to join vaccination posts in "compliance with civic and patriotic duty."

The Multisectorial Commission for Prevention and Combat to Covid-19 announced more restrictive measures to contain the spread of covid-19 in the country, whose new decree on the situation of public calamity comes into force this Friday, October 1st.

Sílvia Lutucuta, who was speaking at a press conference at the Aníbal de Melo Press Center, in Luanda, reported that the Alfa, Beta and Delta variants, which already have community circulation in the country, are contributing to the galloping growth of covid-19 in the country.

Angola registered 644 positive covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the highest record of new cases since the beginning of the pandemic in the country, in March 2019.

If citizens do not follow the guidelines of health entities "we may lose the fight" against covid-19, said the minister. "More people are dying from covid-19 than from malaria," she emphasized.

"And this is the moment that we have to make an introspection, because the citizens continue to have gatherings, family parties, they are not wearing masks, they stopped washing their hands", she lamented.

Adherence to vaccination, she appealed, "is an important weapon" in combating covid-19.

At least 19 positive cases of covid-19 were registered in some schools in the capital, recalled Sílvia Lutucuta, appealing to families for extra care for their children.

Asked by journalists whether the registration of positive cases in schools will not compromise the current school year, the government official stressed that the situation "is under evaluation", adding that a "random screening" will be carried out at the level of schools in the country to assess the propagation graph.

Regarding the manufacture of vaccines against covid-19 in Angola, the minister said that the government "is evaluating the best options", because, she argued, "they must be certified vaccines not only for the national market, but also for the region".