Arrangements for the second dose of Sputnik V shots are still being made even as the COVID-19 vaccination programme in the country continues.
Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony during his daily COVID-19 update sought to reassure persons who took their first dose of Sputnik V that they will receive their second jab.
“For the Sputnik V which is a totally different vaccine for your second dose, we don’t have in country right now but we are making the arrangements to make sure that we can get it in as soon as possible,” Dr. Anthony said. The country has been out of second doses of the vaccine for almost three weeks.
To this end he went on to say that though the initial time between the first and second dose was four weeks, the ministry has received information from the Gamaleya Research Institute in Russia which manufactures the said vaccine.
The health minister said during the update, “we have received information from the Gamaleya institute, the people who would have manufactured Sputnik V and they are saying that you can get your second dose within four weeks to 12 weeks.”
Meanwhile, Anthony stated that approximately 45.9% of the adult population accounting for 223,659 persons have so far received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine while 92,157 persons or 18.9% of persons 18 and older have been fully inoculated.
