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The first consignment of vaccines which will help the country in strengthening its fight against the deadly coronavirus pandemic will be shipped to South Sudan this week.
Speaking to reporters in Juba via video message during the weekly COVID-19 media briefing on Sunday, Dinceen Brendan, Coordinator of COVAX, said the AstraZeneca vaccine will arrive in the country between 22nd and 26th of February 2021.
“The COVAX facility has written to us telling us that this coming week starting on Monday to Friday; we will hand over the vaccine to the Ministry of Health,” Brendan said.
The Ministry of Health said it had officially applied for coronavirus vaccines to protect citizens from the pandemic in late January.
“35 to 40 percent of the 864,000 does will be the first delivery and the remaining does will come later,” he added.
According to the Ministry of Health, health workers will be allocated 27,000 doses, elderly population 2,096,380, persons with underlying factors like diabetes 220,120, persons living with HIV/AIDS 190,000, IDPs [internally displaced persons] 405,000, teachers 46,000, economically active population ] 25-40 years [old] 2,212,147.
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“South Sudan to receive first consignment of AstraZeneca ‘s COVID-19 vaccine”
Who would dare try bring that *dirty vaccine* into our country and over our people again? *AstraZeneca* is not a damn vaccine lowly informed ‘South Sudanese fools’. Did Any South Sudanese fool got ‘the Ebola virus’ that was tested by the evils in *Guinea, West Africa and which went and spread to ‘Sierra Leone, Liberia, some parts of Nigeria, some parts of Bakina Faso and some of their creeps thought, they would bring their bullshits into our country and over our people again.
Democratic republic of Congo (D.R.C)—–Eastern Congo has never had a peace since independence. Mr. Patrice Lumumba, had some of with us here in South Sudan.
He helped kicked out the Belgium criminals out of then Zaire (D.R.C). But the UN, the US, their evil juus (so-called israelis), Indians, Nepalese, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans, Rwandans, some of their Bantuses and some of their creeps in between who have attached themselves to our country and over our people—–good luck.