DILI, 08 janaury 2022 (TATOLI) – More than 200.000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine will soon arrive in the country, said the Director-General of Health Services Delivery of the Ministry of Health (MoH), Odete Viegas.
“There is a possibility that, very shortly, the United States, through the COVAX Facility, will help Timor-Leste with more than 260.000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine”, Viegas told reporters at Delta Nova, in Dili, on friday.
In Timor-Leste, of the 754.864 eligible adult groups, 83.6% had received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, of which 68.8% have been fully vaccinated.
The country has so far vaccinated 19.6% of students with the first dose of the vaccine, of which 16.1% have already been fully vaccinated.
Covid-19 vaccination: Municipality Tracker
At least four municipalities have now fully vaccinated more than 70 percent of their adult residents. Four of these municipalities included Dili (81.0%), Viqueque (81.9%), Covalima (76.7%) and RAEAO (72.0%). However, the vaccination rate is low in Ermera and Bobonaro with 50.6% and 51.5% respectively.
So far, Timor-Leste had received a total of 1.213.279 doses of Covid-19 vaccines, consisting of 1.012.850 doses of AstraZeneca, 100.000 doses of SINOVAC (China), and 100.620 doses of Pfizer vaccines (USA).
Of the 1.012.650 AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines, 100.800 doses were given by COVAX Facility, 24.00 doses from New Zealand, 777.850 does were donated by the government of Australia, 142.000 doses from Portugal, and 168.000 doses were given by the Japanese government.
Journalist: Isaura Lemos de Deus
Editor: Maria Auxiliadora
Translation: Filomeno Martins
Editor: Nelia Borges Rosario
