TIRANA, April 18 /ATA/ – Another shipment of 50,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines arrived at Rinas international airport on Sunday evening, as the mass vaccination campaign continues apace in Albania with the vaccine eligibility has expanded to include people aged 60.
The Minister of Health and Social Protection Ogerta Manastirliu, the Minister of State for Reconstruction Arben Ahmetaj and the Ambassador of the Republic of India to Albania, with residence in Bucharest, Rahul Shrivastava, were at the airport to greet the arrival of the latest batch of coronavirus vaccines.
Minister of Health Ogerta Manastirliu said that “a batch of 50.000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses arrived today, which will be part of the validation process and will then be distributed to the health care centres and the mass vaccination sites to go on with the population’s mass vaccination.”
“With the vaccine doses delivered today, the number of doses delivered to date jumps to over 400,000, while 320,000 doses have been administered and more than 230,000 older adults have received the first dose. Next week, starting tomorrow, we expect more than 200,000 doses to arrive next week, starting tomorrow so that we will be able to go on with the mass vaccination throughout the country,” Manastirliu said.
Around 490,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have already arrived in Albania, whereas 200,000 more doses are expected to be delivered in the next few days.
Albania has recorded a significant decline in the fresh COVID-19 cases in recent weeks. On Sunday, health authorities reported only 138 new coronavirus cases and two fatalities
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