According to an announcement by the US Embassy in Luanda, the batch comprises a total of 600,210 Pfizer vaccines.
"The US Embassy in Luanda, Angola, is pleased to announce the arrival of 600,210 additional doses of covid-19 vaccines that the US is sharing with Angola through Covax", reads a statement posted on the website of the embassy.
The note states that this is the fourth batch of vaccines that the US has delivered to Angola, thus raising the total number of vaccine doses provided to Angola by that country to 2,247,170.
The most recent batch arrived at Luanda International Airport this Monday, October 11th, around 1:40 pm.
On the occasion, Sílvia Lutucuta, Minister of Health, informed that the country has more than 10 million vaccines available to fight covid-19.
Cited by Jornal de Angola, the government official reassured people, stating that there are enough vaccines to respond to all those included in the vaccination plan.
"The main objective of the Executive is to vaccinate, by the end of December, about 70 percent of the population aged 18 years and over", she said, considering that this new batch of vaccines reinforces the vaccination plan.
