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The Democratic Republic of Congo has received 250,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine. The doses have been donated through the global Covax programme.
It is the first time the country has received a vaccine other than the AstraZeneca jab.
President Félix Tshisekedi himself was reluctant to take the AstraZeneca jab and promised to take a different one once they were available.
This first Moderna batch of 250,000 doses, which arrived on Monday, is part of the six million different vaccines that the central African country has been waiting for since last July.
DR Congo is one of the countries where vaccine reluctance is high.
More than 300,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines had to be disposed of when they expired last June and July.
