The Republic of Moldova was offered a lot of 230,400 Moderna vaccine doses by France free of charge through the COVAX Facility. The doses were shipped today and will be kept at the storehouse of the National Public Health Agency from where they will be distributed to all the national vaccination centers, IPN reports.

Svetlana Nicolăescu, secretary of state at the Ministry of Health, said the given lot of vaccine doses enables to extend the immunization program and to protect the population from severe cases of COVID-19.

Marc Ivarra, charge d’affaires at the Embassy of France in Chisinau, stated that the donation is a concrete expression of France’s commitment that will contribute to accelerating the vaccination campaign given that the national full immunization coverage in Moldova is under 30%. “The distribution of COVID-19 vaccine doses is one of the priorities of the French Government that makes common cause with the courtiers affected by the pandemic and that wants to contribute to increasing immunization coverage worldwide,” stated Marc Ivarra.

In April 2021, France donated COVID-19 vaccine shots to Moldova trough COVAX the first. It committed itself to donating 120 million doses by the end of the first half of 2022.

Since the vaccination campaign was launched in the country, Moldova has received 2,550,090 COVID-19 vaccine doses, 816,390 doses of which through the COVAX Facility. As many as 966,337 persons in Moldova completed the vaccination series so far.