Ondjiva – The Cunene Provincial Health Office will promote, from next week, a massive vaccination campaign of the rural population against Covid-19, to bring closer the expected target number of 729,883 people.
So far, in the province, of the number to be reached, 346,335 people have already taken the 1st, 2nd and booster dose of the AstraZeneca, Sputnik, Sinopharm and Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Since the outbreak of the disease in the country, Cunene has registered 1,846 cases, of which 1,790 recovered and 56 deaths.
The information was provided, this Saturday, to ANGOP, by the supervisor of the Expanded Vaccination Program in Cunene, Serafina Ndapandula, having mentioned, on the occasion, that they will reinforce the mobile teams in the rural areas of the six municipalities.
She explained that it is intended to immunize the majority of people during the campaign that will have the support of the World Health Organization, World Vision and the Program of the Population Service International (PSI).
Source: Angola Press News Agency