South Sudan received the first consignment of 152,950 doses of the Johnson & Johnson ‘Janssen’ COVID-19 vaccines on 14th September, 2021. These single dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines are the third batch of vaccine shipments to South Sudan through the COVAX Facility. The first batch of AstraZeneca vaccines were shipped through the COVAX facility to South Sudan on 25 March 2021 and the second batch of 59,520 AstraZeneca vaccines donated by France arrived on 31 August 2021. A donation from Sweden for more vaccine is also scheduled to arrive soon. The arrival of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine means that the country has now received a total of 271,200 COVID-19 vaccine doses that are for providing protection against this global COVID-19 pandemic.
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