A batch of 100,000 doses of Sputnik V vaccines arrive in Tripoli

By Sami Zaptia.

Another batch of 100,000 Sputnik V vaccines arrived in Tripoli yesterday (Photo: GNU).

London, 7 July 2021:

A new consignment of 100,600 doses of Sputnik V anti-Coronavirus vaccines arrived at Tripoli’s Mitiga airport yesterday, the Libyan government reported.

This is the fourth batch of Sputnik V vaccines to arrive in Libya bring the brand’s total vaccines to 401,252 – the most of the four brands that have arrived.

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	Brand	Quantity	Date of arrival	Note
1	Sputnik V	101,252	040421	Via UAE
2	Oxford AstraZeneca	57,600	080421	Via Covax
3	Sputnik V	100,000	090421	?
4	Sinovac	150,000	140421	Via Turkey
5	Oxford AstraZeneca	117,600	190521	Via Covax
6	Sputnik V	100,00	150621	?
7	Pfizer	54,600	240621	Via Covax
8	Sputnik V	100,000	060721	?
	Total:	781,052

Overall, it is now the eighth consignment of vaccines to arrive in Libya since the first shipment (of Sputnik V) arrived on 4 April. It brings the total number of vaccines of the four brands to arrive in Libya to 781,052 doses.

Libya’s Ministry of Health expects a total of 12 million doses to arrive over time.

Libya’s population is 6.9 million excluding foreigners and illegal migrants, but the government has vowed to vaccinate all present in Libya irrespective of their legal status. On 2 June, the online registration system was opened for non-Libyans.

The latest Coronavirus cases and vaccinations

Meanwhile, the latest National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) figures reported today read as follows:

Total number of people vaccinated	386,922
Total number of Coronavirus cases	196,894
Total number of recovered cases	179,685
Total number of active cases	13,994
Total number of deaths	3,215
Total number of tests conducted over last 24 hours	4,442
Total rate of infection	24 percent

Tunisia alert

Tunisia yesterday reported a record number of cases as a result of the spread of the Indian variant and there is a possibility that Libya may close its land and air borders to the country. Libya and Tunisia are closely interlinked and any re-closure would hit both struggling economies.

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