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Volume 31, Number 8—August 2025

Dispatch

COVID-19 Predeparture Test Results and Vaccination Coverage among US-Bound Refugees, 2020–2022

Ashley S. Judge, Tarissa Mitchell, Alexander Klosovsky, Michelle Weinberg, and Christina R. PharesComments to Author 
Author affiliation: Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA (A.S. Judge); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (A.S. Judge, T. Mitchell, M. Weinberg, C.R. Phares); International Organization for Migration, Washington, DC, USA (A. Klosovsky)

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Table 2

Predeparture COVID-19 vaccination coverage among adult refugees by region and country of overseas health assessment, November 24, 2020–December 31, 2022

Region and country No. (%) refugees
Total population
Single-dose series Two-dose series
Completed primary series
First dose only First and second dose
Total
2,509 (10.1)
1,030 (4.1)
7,878 (31.7)
10,387 (41.8)
24,831
Sub-Saharan Africa 2,059 (21.5) 343 (3.6) 1,275 (13.3) 3,334 (34.8) 9,594
Burundi 395 (46.4) 0 0 395 (46.4) 851
Ethiopia 240 (42.7) 9 (1.6) 29 (5.2) 269 (47.9) 562
Kenya 410 (47.6) 10 (1.1) 149 (17.3) 559 (64.9) 862
Malawi 47 (12.3) 8 (2.1) 72 (18.9) 119 (31.2) 381
Rwanda 49 (2.4) 157 (7.5) 742 (35.7) 791 (38.1) 2,079
Tanzania 489 (20.8) 7 (0.3) 17 (0.7) 506 (21.5) 2,352
Uganda 174 (16.4) 112 (10.5) 164 (15.5) 338 (31.9) 1,061
Zambia 94 (12.3) 12 (1.5) 9 (1.2) 103 (13.5) 764
Other*
161 (23.6)
28 (4.1)
93 (13.6)
254 (37.2)
682
Americas 17 (0.7) 239 (10.1) 1,474 (62.7) 1,491 (63.4) 2,352
Ecuador 15 (3.7) 21 (5.2) 299 (74.6) 314 (78.3) 401
El Salvador 0 45 (7.5) 412 (68.8) 412 (68.8) 599
Guatemala 1 (0.1) 134 (13.5) 579 (58.2) 580 (58.3) 994
Honduras 0 23 (7.4) 156 (50.5) 156 (50.5) 309
Other†
1 (2)
16 (32.7)
28 (57.1)
29 (59.1)
49
Asia 16 (0.5) 196 (6.3) 1,579 (50.5) 1,595 (51.0) 3,125
Malaysia 0 107 (7.5) 1,068 (75.3) 1,068 (75.3) 1,419
Thailand 0 63 (7.9) 168 (20.8) 168 (20.8) 806
Other‡
16 (1.8)
26 (2.9)
343 (38.1)
359 (39.9)
900
Europe 63 (2.5) 36 (1.5) 336 (13.2) 399 (15.7) 2,537
Moldova 15 (2.3) 6 (0.9) 78 (11.9) 93 (14.2) 655
Ukraine 1 (0.1) 0 76 (6) 77 (6.1) 1,269
Other§
47 (7.7)
30 (4.9)
182 (29.7)
229 (37.4)
613
Middle East/North Africa 354 (4.9) 216 (3) 3,214 (44.5) 3,568 (49.4) 7,223
Egypt 30 (1.9) 37 (2.3) 264 (16.8) 294 (18.7) 1,573
Jordan 0 77 (3.8) 1,428 (70.4) 1,428 (70.4) 2,027
Lebanon 3 (0.7) 25 (6) 64 (15.5) 67 (16.2) 413
Qatar 273 (30.8) 30 (3.4) 563 (63.5) 836 (94.3) 886
Turkey 0 21 (1.2) 612 (35.8) 612 (35.8) 1,710
Other¶ 48 (7.8) 26 (4.2) 283 (46.1) 331 (53.9) 614

*Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ghana, Guinea, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, South Africa, Sudan, Togo, Zimbabwe. †Colombia, Costa Rica, Curaçao, Peru. ‡Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, Nepal, Nauru, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Vietnam. §Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Malta, Poland, Russia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan. ¶Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates.

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