Rwanda resumes nationwide vaccination against Covid-19

Covid-19 vaccine.

A health worker administers the Covid-19 vaccine at Nyamata District Hospital in Bugesera, Rwanda on March 5, 2021. PHOTO | COURTESY

Rwanda will on Saturday resume its Covid-19 nationwide vaccination campaign to fully immunise those who had previously received their first doses of the Oxford- AstraZeneca vaccines.

In a statement released on Friday, Rwanda Biomedical Centre said it received additional 247,000 doses of AstraZeneca through the Covax mechanism, including 117,600 doses donated by the French government.