Luanda – At least 6.9 million people is the number of citizen vaccinated, up to Thursday, in Angola, said this Friday, the National Coordinator of the Expanded Vaccination Plan (PAV), Alda de Sousa.
The coordinator, who was speaking on the second day of the workshop for journalists on routine vaccination and Covid-19 vaccination, about “vaccines against Covid-19 in use in the country”, said that 5.0 million people had already been vaccinated with the first dose, 1.7 million with the second dose and 177.700 with the single dose.
Alda Sousa explained that 42 percent of people vaccinated are women and 58 percent are men.
“We can see that men are joining more the vaccination posts, taking advantage of the opportunity to appeal to women to do the same”, she stressed.
The goal, she continued, is to reach 15.7 million citizens, corresponding to 33.42 percent of the target audience.
Angola is using vaccines from AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Sputnik, Sinopharm and Johnson & Johnson.
In Luanda, vaccination is taking place at the Osvaldo Serra Van-Dúnem Police Science Institute, in the Special Economic Zone (ZEE), at the Paz Flor Tourist Centre, at the Mutu-ya-Kevela Primary School, at the Youth House, at the post. KK 5000, at the Ulengo Shopping Centre, at the University Campus, at the Port of Luanda, at Sequele, at Zango V and at Cidadela Desportiva Complex.
Health authorities expect to vaccinate 54 percent of the population, a total of 16.8 million individuals over 16 years of age.
In the country, 175 posts were created that administer the vaccines of AstraZeneca, sinopharm, Sptunik and Johnson& Johnson.
Source: Angola Press News Agency