The government through the Ministry of Health has created an online Vaccination Certificate portal to enable fully vaccinated persons to easily access their certificates.
The self-service e-portal enables an individual to download their certificate from the system two weeks after receiving their 2nd dose.
According to the officials from the Ministry to-date, the country has administered 1,157, 251 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Recently, the Ministry of Health received 864,000 doses through the COVAX facility and an additional 100,000 from the Indian Government in March this year.
Later in June the Ministry received 175,200 doses of AstraZeneca from the French government.
As of 9th August 2021, cumulatively a total of 904,601 persons had received the 1st dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine representing 79.4% of the received vaccine doses whereas a total of 250,664 (27.7%) had been fully vaccinated.
The Ministry resumed the COVID-19 vaccination this week after receiving 286,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines on 30th of July from the Norwegian government through the dose sharing agreement of the COVAX facility and another 300,000 does of the Sinovac vaccine from the Chinese government on 31st of the same month.
The Ministry of health said it will be communicating in due course when it intends to rollout the administration of 300,000 doses of the Sinovac.
As of 2nd August 2021, based on the Ministry of Health vaccination data, 230,739 persons were due for the second dose, having reached their 12th week after the first jab.
Those who have not yet made 12 weeks should patiently wait for their time.
The Ministry expects additional doses of the AstraZeneca and Johnson and Johnson vaccines before end of August and early September.
Officials said that the vaccination exercise will be open to the rest of the targeted 22 million population in due course as and when more vaccines are received into the country.
