Health Ministry administers 136,247 AstraZeneca doses so far

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Health Ministry administers 136,247 AstraZeneca doses so far

By Vijay Narayan

Sunday 30/05/2021

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The Health Ministry says they have administered 136,247 AstraZeneca doses so far.

Permanent Secretary, Doctor James Fong says they have administered 36,885 vaccinations from 24th to 29th May – 33,077 first doses and 3,808 second doses.

He says the new shipment of vaccines have arrived in the country and they will be continuing the vaccination programme this week.

Once this new batch of vaccines is used up, Doctor Fong says they will have given the first dose of the vaccine to 260,000 people in Fiji in total.

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