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Kuwait City: Kuwait’s Ministry of Health has authorised the emergency use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, state news agency KUNA reported. In a press statement on Friday, Abdullah Al Bader, the Assistant Undersecretary for Drug and Food control, said that the approval only came after a detailed review and comprehensive evaluation of the vaccine was conducted. The vaccine has received approval from the European Medicines Agency, the United Kingdom Medicines and Health products regulatory agency, the Gulf Cooperation health council and Serum Institute of India, Al Bader added. The ministry...

Kuwait City: Kuwait is preparing to receive 200,000 doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine by next week, Al Qabas reported. A source revealed to Al Qabas that an additional 800,000 doses will arrive by February or March at the latest. While Kuwait has placed an order for the Oxford vaccine, administering the vaccine will be contingent on official approval locally, as it first must be licenced before its arrival. Once the Oxford vaccine arrives and is approved it will be easier to store, compared to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine which is required to be stored in less than 70 degrees’ Celsius ...

Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to arrive in Kuwait within 10 days The Kuwaiti Ministry of Health announced Monday that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will be arriving in Kuwait within 10 days, according to Gulf News. The government is planning to vaccinate around 10,000 people per day. The news came following the announcement by the assistant undersecretary of the Kuwait Food and Drug Control Administration Abdullah Al-Bader Sunday that the Ministry of Health issued an emergency use license for the vaccine. In press statements, Al-Bader said that the approval was granted following evaluations of the va...

The announcement came after the government authorized emergency use of the COVID-19 vaccine on Sunday.  The Assistant Undersecretary for Drug and Food Control Affairs at the Ministry of Health, Abdullah Al Bader, said in a press statement that approval was granted after a committee conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the vaccine and reviewed the results of the clinical trials. In addition, the approval was contingent on the Pfizer vaccine receiving FDA approval, which it did on Friday. Vaccination process. Priority for elderly The government is preparing to vaccinate 10,000 people a day,...