A batch of 40,000 additional AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines arrived today, July 8th, 2021, from Australia. In total, Australia has already supplied 175,000 vaccines to Timor-Leste.

Australia has committed to provide Timor-Leste with sufficient doses of COVID-19 vaccines for the 80% of the population not covered by the COVAX mechanism.

In addition to the vaccines from Australia, 124,800 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, under the COVAX mechanism, and 100,000 doses of the Sinovac vaccine, offered by China, have already arrived in the country, for a total of 399,800 doses of vaccines against COVID-19.

By July 6th, at national level, a total of 243,949 doses were administered, of which 224,155 were AstraZeneca vaccines and 19,797 were Sinovac vaccines.

Nationwide, 217,677 people (28.7% of people over 18) have already received the first dose and 26,272 people (3.5%) have completed the vaccination.

In the Dili Municipality, 115,737 people (54.1%) have already received the first dose of the vaccine against COVID-19 and 14,418 people have already received two doses (6.74%).

Last week, on the occasion of the arrival of another batch of 65,000 vaccines, Australia expressed “its pride in providing Australia-made AstraZeneca safe vaccines to Timor-Leste and other neighbouring countries in the region, at a time when global vaccine supplies are limited”.

At the meeting of the Council of Ministers on June 23rd, 2021 the objectives for the vaccination campaign were redefined, and the goal to be achieved is now 10,000 inoculations per day, at national level.