<span style="color: #222222;">The Democratic Republic of Congo has received 250,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine donated through the global Covax programme.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">It is the first time the country has received a vaccine other than the AstraZeneca jab.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">This first Moderna batch of 250,000 doses, which arrived on Monday, is part of the six million different vaccines that the central African country has been waiting for since last July.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Since the launch of the immunisation campaign against Covid-19 on 19 April, less than 100,000 people have received a jab.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">DR Congo is one of the countries where vaccine reluctance is high.</span><br />