On Monday Somalia received the first batch of the Oxford Astrazeneca Vaccine ,marking a crucial step in the fight against the virus as deaths continue to rise.
The Somalia Ministry of Health confirmed that a flight carrying 300,000 doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine arrived in the country. The health minister Fauzia Abukar along with the UN representative to Somalia travelled to the airport to receive the vaccine from the world health organisation.
Fauzia Abukar said that the first shipment of doses would be allocated to frontline workers, the elderly and those with chronic health conditions. She added that Somalia’s health ministry has conducted extensive mass vaccination drives for deadly vaccine-preventable diseases in the past, such as measles and polio, and will rely on experience gained through these campaigns.
The federal ministry of health in Somalia revealed they have already trained 2,000 health workers who will begin the exercise on Tuesday.
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