The Gambia is expecting to receive another 156,000 doses of Covid-19 by May as the nation’s health Ministry has at the weekend received another 15,000 doses Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine amid public suspicion around the vaccine.
The country had its first batch of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine last month which followed a nationwide rolled out beginning with President Adama Barrow.
“We received another 15,000 vaccines, we have an extra 15,000, we are working on before May a total of 156,000,” Dr Mustapha Bittaye director of health service told West Coast Radio Coffee Time.
At least 480,000 people are expected to be vaccinated with the Covax Oxford-AstraZeneca, prioritising frontline health workers and people above 65 years.