Six months after the start of mass vaccination campaigns against Covid-19 throughout the country, a majority of the Rwandan population is now fully vaccinated. The goal is to inoculate 9.1 million people by June of this year.
By Ange Iliza, in Kigali
Impacted like the rest of the continent by the Covid-19 pandemic, Rwanda has nevertheless managed to secure a steady flow of vaccine doses by August 2021 through donations – thanks to the Covax public-private partnership, under the aegis of the WHO – and purchases, via the Africa Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT) initiative, led by the African Union.
