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Jordan began inoculating its citizens against coronavirus on Wednesday with the aim of vaccinating a fifth of the country’s ten million people.
Officials said government hospitals in the northern provinces of Irbid and Mafraq started giving the first vaccinations in the morning.
Centres in Amman experienced delays, partly due to more demand for the vaccine than outlaying areas. At the Queen Alia military hospital in north Amman, at least 80 people took the vaccine.
But the first day was marked by a relatively low turnout. The number of people due to take the vaccine on Wednesday ranged from hundreds in Amman, to 60 in Mafraq, 46 in the province of Aqaba on the Red Sea, and 17 people in the southern province of Maan, officials said.