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Vaccination starts today - Health PS

The country's eagerly-awaited COVID-19 vaccination programme gets underway today, Health and Wellness permanent secretary, Kabelo Ebineng confirmed yesterday evening.

Without providing details, Ebineng told Mmegi vaccinations would begin using the COVISHIELD vaccines recently donated by India.

Botswana recently received 30, 000 doses of the COVISHIELD vaccine which is the brand name of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine manufactured under licence by the Serum Institute of India. “Next batch of vaccines will arrive as soon as supplies are available,” he said. “We are expecting notification anytime in the next seven days.”

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