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Vaccination once morest Covid-19 at Kigali hospital, March 18, 2021.
For several weeks, Rwanda has set up the equivalent of a vaccination pass. You must now be vaccinated to take public transport, go to restaurants or attend religious ceremonies. The country has already administered two doses to around 50% of its adult population and says it wants to reach 70% of people over 12 by June. Report from the Nyabugogo bus station in Kigali, where these measures arouse mixed reactions.
With our correspondent in Kigali, Laure Broulard
Anaclete is regarding to return to her small farm in Muhanga, following selling her fruit at the market in Kigali. He had to show his vaccination certificate to buy his bus ticket: “ Wherever you go, you are asked if you are vaccinated. And if you’re not, you don’t have access to the various services. You are told to go away. Even to sell at the market, you have to be vaccinated. »
A large white tent has been erected in the middle of the buses leaving for the whole country. It is one of the main vaccination centers of the Rwandan capital. Anaclete came for his third dose. ” I think that the vaccination obligation in certain places is a good thing. Because the government should not take the progress made in the fight once morest the coronavirus for granted. Without these measures, people would not be encouraged to get vaccinated. »
Gabriel, 19, is reluctant to receive his first dose reluctantly: ” Me so far I did not trust. A lot of people don’t trust it. But there are people who come here because they don’t have too many choices. Our country has overdone it a bit. But it’s not just our country, many others are doing the same. But I think that’s overkill. »
In recent weeks, several people have tried to flee the country, claiming to want to escape vaccination.