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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
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) |
2,4831 |
| 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) | 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) | 1061 |
| 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) | 1474 (62.7) | 1491 (63.4) | 2,352 |
| Ecuador | 15 (3.7) | 21 (5.2) | 299 (74.6) | 314 (78.3) | 401 |
| El Salvador | 0 (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 (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) | 1579 (50.5) | 1595 (51.0) | 3125 |
| Malaysia | 0 (0) | 107 (7.5) | 1068 (75.3) | 1068 (75.3) | 1419 |
| Thailand | 0 (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) | 2537 |
| Moldova | 15 (2.3) | 6 (0.9) | 78 (11.9) | 93 (14.2) | 655 |
| Ukraine | 1 (0.1) | 0 (0) | 76 (6) | 77 (6.1) | 1269 |
| Other§ |
47 (7.7) |
30 (4.9) |
182 (29.7) |
229 (37.4) |
613 |
| Middle East/North Africa | 354 (4.9) | 216 (3) | 3214 (44.5) | 3568 (49.4) | 7223 |
| Egypt | 30 (1.9) | 37 (2.3) | 264 (16.8) | 294 (18.7) | 1573 |
| Jordan | 0 (0) | 77 (3.8) | 1428 (70.4) | 1428 (70.4) | 2027 |
| 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 (0) | 21 (1.2) | 612 (35.8) | 612 (35.8) | 1710 |
| Other¶ | 48 (7.8) | 26 (4.2) | 283 (46.1) | 331 (53.9) | 614 |
*Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Chad, Côte D’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Ghana, Guinea, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, South Africa, Sudan, Togo, Zimbabwe. †Colombia, Costa Rica, Curaçao, Peru. ‡Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Burma, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, Nepal, Nauru, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Vietnam. §Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Czechia, 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.