{"id":8750,"date":"2021-08-13T22:44:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T22:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=8750"},"modified":"2021-08-15T11:26:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T11:26:12","slug":"somalia-gets-over-300000-doses-of-johnson-johnson-jab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2021\/08\/13\/somalia-gets-over-300000-doses-of-johnson-johnson-jab\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia gets over 300K doses of Johnson &#038; Johnson jab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;\u00a0<\/strong>Somalia received 302,400 doses of the Johnson &amp; Johnson coronavirus vaccine, donated by the US through the COVAX facility, a global initiative aimed at equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thanking the US for the donation in a statement late Thursday, Somalia\u2019s Health Ministry said this was the first batch of the single-shot vaccine that will be distributed in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Health Minister Dr. Fawziya Abikar Nur said the donation would be \u201ccrucial in our continued fight against COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Horn of Africa country has so far recorded 16,103 cases and 864 deaths, according to official data.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Health Ministry acknowledged that \u201cCOVID-19 vaccination uptake among the general population remains low\u201d in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As of Aug. 11, only 93,458 people had been fully vaccinated in the country of over 15 million, it said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US donation will help Somalia \u201cexpand the COVID-19 vaccination coverage in the country and enable additional Somalis to be fully vaccinated with one shot,\u201d read the statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Anadolu Agency\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/africa\/somalia-gets-over-300-000-doses-of-johnson-johnson-jab\/2333980\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212;\u00a0Somalia received 302,400 doses of the Johnson &amp; Johnson coronavirus vaccine, donated by the US through the COVAX facility, a global initiative aimed at equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines. Thanking the US for the donation in a statement late Thursday, Somalia\u2019s Health Ministry said this was the first batch of the single-shot vaccine that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-health-cluster","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8753,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750\/revisions\/8753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}