Last Thursday, Togo received 118,000 doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. The batch was acquired through the African Union’s platform.
According to the press release that revealed the information, Togo ordered a total of four million doses of the Africa-made vaccine. It has several advantages: it is administered in one dose, comes in a bottle of 5 doses, and can be stored at a temperature of +2 to +8 degrees.
After the doses were received, President Gnassingbé urged authorities to rapidly vaccinate populations. “I am delighted with the rapid arrival of these doses, and I invite my fellow citizens to be vaccinated en masse to contain the disease,” the leader said.
Counting the recent batch, Togo has received since March 2021 a total of 716,620 covid vaccines. As of August 3, 2021, says the government, 337,820 people (4.2% of the population) had received at least one dose while 158,310 (2% of the population) have been fully vaccinated.
