Rwanda has started immunising its health care workers against Covid-19, the health ministry said on Sunday.
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An official in the ministry told the BBC that immunisation with the Pfizer vaccine started last week in a few hospitals in the capital, Kigali.
In a tweet, the ministry said the vaccines were acquired “through international partnerships in limited quantities”.
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Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritius, Morocco and Seychelles are the other African countries that have started vaccination.
Officials in Rwanda said there will be a wider roll-out this month with supplies expected from the Covax initiative and African Union.
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Rwanda has so far confirmed 17,000 coronavirus cases with 239 deaths.
Source: Myjoyonline
