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US sends Covid vaccines to Mozambique

Mozambique has received more than two million Johnson & Johnson vaccines from the US under the global sharing scheme known as Covax, the US embassy in Maputo has said.

This is the largest consignment that Mozambique has received so far from the US, bringing to nearly 3.5 million the number of vaccines it has donated to the southern Africa state.

“The United States remains committed to sharing vaccines equitably around the world,” its ambassador, Dennis W Hearne, said.

The latest vaccines come at a time when Mozambique is on high alert following the detection of the Omicron variant in neighbouring South Africa.

Source:Fiilafmonline/BBC

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