China News Service, December 18, according to foreign media reports, on the 17th local time, Saudi Arabia launched the new crown vaccination, and the Minister of Health Taufik Rabye participated in the first batch of vaccination activities.
According to the report, Rabia said on the 16th local time that the country had received the first batch of new crown vaccines ordered from Pfizer Pharmaceuticals.
On the 17th local time, at a vaccination center in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, Rabia, a man and a woman in a wheelchair were first vaccinated with this vaccine.
"This is the beginning of the end of the crisis," Rabia said.
The picture shows the box containing Pfizer vaccine unloaded from the air transport container.
The Saudi Ministry of Health recently announced that the country’s new crown vaccination campaign is divided into three stages.
In the first phase, people aged 65 and over, chronic disease patients and high-risk groups will be vaccinated; in the second phase, people over 50 years old will be vaccinated; in the final phase, the rest will be vaccinated.
However, the Saudi Ministry of Health did not specify the specific dates for each phase or how long the mass vaccination campaign will last.