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The Minister of Health of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Abdulrahman al Owais, has put on this Saturday the first dose of a vaccine against Covid-19

(trials with humans), after the authorities will approve "emergency" its use for the country's health personnel.

"In accordance with the plan of the Ministry of Health and Community Protection, which includes providing the vaccine against COVID-19 to specific groups of the first line of defense (...) the Minister of Health, Abdulrahman al Owais, receives the first dose of the vaccine ",

WAM

of a nurse injecting the dose into the left arm of the Emirati minister, who was shown smiling behind the mask.

"With the provision of this vaccine (...) we seek to protect the heroes of the first line of defense from the dangers to which they are exposed due to the nature of their work," said Minister Al Owais in statements collected by the agency.

Likewise, it has indicated that this vaccine,

, "fully complies with the regulations" so that it can be used, after "obtaining positive results in clinical trials carried out by the health sector in the country

"

and that "it will help save lives and reduce losses from the Covid-19 pandemic."

On Monday 14, amid a rebound in coronavirus cases, the Emirati Government

the use for health personnel of this vaccine, whose development is in the third phase.

According to the Ministry of Health, the tests carried out during this third final stage have shown that the vaccine is "safe and effective" and that it has generated "a strong response and antibodies."

Clinical trials have been conducted

and only "minor and expected side effects" have been recorded, such as pain at injection sites, fatigue or headache, and no complications have been detected in about 1,000 volunteers. suffering from chronic diseases, according to the Government.

Emirates is registering an upturn in the contagion of coronavirus: in recent times

, a figure that the country has not counted since May.

Specifically, the Persian Gulf country has registered 809 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of infections to 84,242, while

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