Zimbabwe: Zim to Get Five Million Doses From AU Facility

6 August 2021

Zimbabwe should soon start receiving initial shipments of its 5 million share of the 400 million doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine secured for Africa by the African Union (AU), the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT) and the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (Unicef).

The Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe last month approved the emergency use of Johnson and Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine, the first live vaccine approved, in addition to the previously approved inert vaccines from China, India and Russia.

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