Second dose

The daily vaccination average is 464 people per day.

“Frontliners continue to receive their second dose with 38% covered to date.”

According to vaccination teams, there is zero wastage of administering the vaccine.

There have been no reports of extreme allergic reactions since the start of the second dose of vaccinations.

To date there have been 0 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 0 deaths in Tonga.

Photo source Ministry of Health Tonga 

Health workers began offering the second dose on 24 June, and Matangi Tonga reports 1124 people in Tonga have now had their second AstraZeneca dose.

Health Ministry chief executive Dr Siale 'Akau'ola said the aim is for 70 percent of the Tongan population to be inoculated by December.

A total of 28,667 people have already had their first dose.

24,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine were shipped to Nuku'alofa in late March, through the COVAX programme.

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