Globally, countries are taking action to vaccinate the appropriate size of the population to fight against coronavirus disease as quickly as possible. Mongolia is no exception from the COVID-19 vaccination target. According to the press release from the Government Media and Public Relations, Mongolia is planning to vaccinate all adults which are 60 % of the total population by July 2021.
The vaccination milestone
The COVID-19 National Deployment and Vaccination plan identified the order of vaccine priority for population groups as shown in the picture above.
As of the 1st of April, a total of 311,262 people (15,4 % of the targeted population) have gotten the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine so far nationwide. Within them, 98 % of the health workforce, 99 % of workers in the frontline to battle the COVID-19, and 45 % of the elderly population aged over 50 years have been inoculated.
Since the second half of March, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 has increased dramatically with daily about 400 cases on average and reached a total of 8841 cases so far on 1st of April. 82.2 percent (7267 cases) of the total cases were detected in Ulaanbaatar city. Therefore, the Government of Mongolia is planning to accelerate the Covid-19 immunization campaign and announced to vaccinate 1,1 million people (55 % of the targeted population) in April and May. Most of them can be distributed in Ulaanbaatar city.
Funding sources for the vaccination
In detail:
- A total of 138,540 doses of vaccine (112,800 AstraZeneca/AZD1222 vaccine, and 25,740 Pfizer-BioNTech/ BNT162b2 vaccine) will be provided by the COVAX Facility backed by partners including WHO, CEPI, Gavi, and UNICEF.
- Mongolia received 150,000 doses of Covishield AstraZeneca vaccine as assistance from the Government of India.
- The total of 2.7 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to be provided by the Government of Japan with the support of UNICEF.
- 300 thousand doses of Sinopharm vaccine were donated by China.
- Sergey Anatolyevich Tsyb, the acting Minister of Industry and Trade of Russian Federation declared to donate 300,000 doses Sputnik-V vaccine to Mongolia on 26th of March 2021.
- The CEO of the Trade Development Bank of Mongolia announced to finance 200,000 doses of Sputnik-V or AstraZenac vaccine for their customers on 11th of February, 2021.
Mongolians are very grateful to all donors for financial support to battle the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Written by Ms. Jamsran Gerelmaa.
