Luanda - The secretary of State for Public Health, Franco Mufinda, said Wednesday in Luanda that 888,105 Angolans had been vaccinated.
Of those, he said, 672,043 had taken the first dose and 216,062 had already been given the second dose.
Franco Mufinda also said that 29,316 had been vaccinated on Wednesday, of which 8,896 with the first dose and 20,420 with the second dose.
He stressed the need for citizens of the priority groups to go to the vaccination centres throughout the country.
For the vaccination process, Angola has already acquired six million doses of Sputnik V and received, via the Covx initiative and the Chinese government, 824,000 doses from Astrazeneca and Sinopharma.
The vaccination plan under way aims to immunise around 15.7 million Angolans over the age of 16 and reduce mortality and the number of cases of Covid-19, as well as allowing for the resumption of normal economic and social activities.
In Angola, the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 started last March. In the first phase, it covered health professionals, defence and security forces, the elderly, people with comorbidities, teachers, people over 40 years old, among other exposed people.
In the country, the first two positive cases of Covid-19 were announced on 21 March 2021.
