Luanda – Angola’s first lady Ana Dias Lourenço Thursday appealed to the people to go to the vaccination points to get Covid-19 shots in order to halt the spread of the pandemic.
Ana Dias Lourenço made the appeal while speaking to the press after receiving the first dose of the Sputnik V vaccine, underway in the country”.
“Im doing well after getting the vaccine”, stressed the first lady at Luanda Complex Turístico Paz Flor.
The Russian Sputnik V vaccine is among the most widely used in the world to prevent Covid-19 infections, with a scientific effectiveness of 97 percent.
Last Tuesday, Angola received 40,000 doses of the Sputnik vaccine.
Angola foresees to vaccine about 54 percent of population, a total of 16.8 million, aged more than 16 years old.
The Executive expects to receive another batch of 20 million doses of Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and Sputnik vaccines.
