 Almost half our million doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine were delivered to Ethiopia on Monday. Ethiopia's Health Minister Leah Taddes and U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia Gita Parsi attended a ceremony at Addis Ababa, Borlai International Airport to greet the shipment arrival that contained 453,600 doses. In a speech, Taddesay said that the vaccine had come at an instrumental time when the Delta variant is reaping around the world, driving a new spike in cases. Taddesay said in total they expect to receive 1.2 million doses of what the remaining vaccines expected in the coming weeks. Ethiopia will be receiving around 1.2 million doses of Johnson and Johnson from the U.S. government but this morning we have received 453,600 doses of this 1.2 million and we expect to receive the remaining doses in the next two weeks or so. This also comes at a very instrumental time when this new Delta variant is reaping around the world, driving a new spike of cases and diseases in more than 104 countries and with a very heightened concern for this train to circulate worldwide. Don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.