DUBAI: More than half of the UAE population have received their COVID-19 vaccines, achieving the country’s goal of vaccinating 52.46 percent of individuals covered under the inoculation campaign.
“The campaign that was launched at the start of the year around the country, upon the directives of the country’s leadership, has vaccinated nearly 70.21 percent of elderly people and those with chronic diseases, who are being prioritized,” health minister Abdulrahman bin Mohamed Al-Owais said, in a report from state news agency WAM.
The UAE has provided nearly seven million doses to more than 205 medical centers using the three approved vaccines developed by Sinopharm (SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Inactivated Vaccine), Pfizer/BioNTech (mRNA) and the Russian-developed Sputnik V.
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South Africa Halts Vaccine Rollout
February 09, 2021
FILE - Blood is drawn from a clinical trials patient for the AstraZeneca test vaccine at the a hospital facility outside Johannesburg, South Africa, Nov. 30, 2020.
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Worrying news from South Africa, where health experts say the just-arrived shipment of AstraZeneca vaccines may not work as well against the highly contagious coronavirus variant that is prevalent in the country. That realization means that officials intend to put the mass vaccination program the largest in Africa, so far on hold before it was to begin.
Clinical studies in South Africa appear to have found no evidence that this vaccine has full efficacy against the variant, known as 501Y.V2 or B1.351.
Chinese Ambassador Nong Rong and Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi at Nur Khan Airbase. Photo courtesy NCOC
The first batch of Covid-19 vaccines arrived in Pakistan from China on Monday via a special Pakistan Air Force (PAF) aircraft. Photo courtesy NCOC
Vaccine doses are being loaded on a PAF aircraft. Photo courtesy: vide screeengrab from Dr Faisal Sultan s Twitter
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Monday said that the arrival of the first batch of Covid-19 vaccines from Beijing was practical proof of the Pak-China friendship.
Earlier today, the first batch of the vaccines arrived in the country from Beijing via a special Pakistan Air Force (PAF) aircraft.