Basic groups in the first stage, including "the elderly and people of determination"
Dubai Begins Optional Vaccination With "Pfizer" Vaccine To Confront "Corona"
Shamma Rashid is one of the first vaccine recipients in the second category, "first line of defense."
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Adel Shukrallah is one of the first vaccinators in the same category.
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The Dubai Health Authority has started the vaccination campaign with the "Pfizer-Biontech" vaccine against "Covid-19", in coordination with the Supreme Committee for Crisis and Disaster Management in Dubai, and the Control and Control Center to combat the Corona virus.
The authority has prepared a detailed plan for vaccination steps and mechanisms, and the target groups from the first phase that started yesterday, following the approval of the vaccine by the US Food and Drug Administration, and its registration by the Ministry of Health and Community Protection in the UAE.
Within its plan, "Dubai Health" targets four main categories of vaccination. The first category includes senior citizens, elderly residents (60 years and over), people with chronic diseases, and people of determination, and the second category includes the first line of defense in the government and private sectors, while it includes The third category is workers in other vital occupations, while the fourth category is concerned with everyone who wants to receive the vaccine.
The authority stated that vaccination is optional, and the "Pfizer-Biontech" vaccine can be obtained through the vaccination sites, according to the approved plan in six centers, namely: Zabeel Health Care Center, Al-Muzhar Health Care, Wad Al-Hammar Health Care, Al-Barsha Health Care, in addition to an examination center. Medical Fitness Uptown Mirdif and Hatta Hospital Center.
The authority revealed the first recipients of the vaccine at the beginning of the vaccination campaign, namely: Ali Salem Ali Al-Adidi, an elderly citizen (84 years), Shamma Saif Rashid Al-Alili, from Dubai Ambulance (36 years), and the nurse at Dubai Health Authority Asha Sawsan Philip ( 45 years old), Adel Hassan Shukrallah Abdullah, from Dubai Police (32 years), and Asif Khan Fadl Subhan, a driver at the Roads and Transport Authority in Dubai (37 years).
The Dubai Health Authority confirmed that providing the vaccine is an important step in the course of confronting the "Covid-19" pandemic, and limiting its spread, but it does not mean dispensing with following preventive measures and precautionary measures that constitute the most important guarantee in blocking the virus, and avoiding its transmission among members of society, stressing. The need for society to continue applying the recommended precautionary measures, including the use of masks, and maintaining social distancing, even on the part of those who have been vaccinated, to ensure the highest levels of safety for all.
The authority indicated that, since the first moments of the emergence of the new Corona, it has been facing the virus on more than one axis, most notably the prevention axis, through which many precautionary measures and measures have been implemented, in cooperation with the relevant agencies at the state and emirate levels, starting with monitoring and control operations. Quarantine and quarantine, and through proactive steps for the laboratory examination, which has raised its capacity to reach more than 80,000 daily examinations today.
She indicated that providing an anti-Coronavirus vaccine is part of the great concern that the Dubai government, represented by the authority, attaches to people's health, and its constant endeavor to prevent and protect them from infectious diseases, which strengthens the efforts made to overcome this global challenge.
The Dubai Health Authority confirmed that the comprehensive plan it prepared clarifies the places, dates and stages of vaccination, and who will be targeted at each stage, in light of batches and shipments of doses for the "Covid-19" vaccine, which will arrive in succession, and in stages, according to what was agreed upon with the producing company. For the vaccine.
As for the registration procedures and booking appointments to receive the vaccination, which will be in two doses for each person, the authority has allocated registration through two channels, namely: the authority application on smart phones (DHA), and the call center on the unified toll-free number (800342).
The first to receive the vaccine
Ali Salem Al-Adidi. From the source
Wajih Al-Sebaei - Dubai /
Ali Salem Al-Adidi (84 years), one of the first to receive the vaccine, said that “the UAE has provided the world with a model in caring for senior citizens, by including them among the priority groups in getting the vaccine,” stressing that his confidence in the decisions and directions of the government led him to To be among the first to volunteer to receive the vaccine.
Dubai Police Corporal, Adel Hassan Shukrallah, one of the first to receive the vaccine, called on everyone to take the initiative to take the vaccine, so that life would return to normal as soon as possible, stressing that he would play his role to urge members of his family and friends to speed up getting the vaccine, to obtain strong immunity against the virus Corona, thanking the Dubai government for the speedy provision of the vaccine, and making it accessible to everyone, according to easy and smooth procedures, for free.
For her part, the emergency medicine technician at Dubai Ambulance, one of the first recipients of the "Pfizer" vaccine, Shamma Saif Rashid Al-Alili, said that “the vaccine provided by the government constitutes a protection front for the first line of defense and society from the dangers of (Covid-19). He hesitated, so that society became immune to the virus that plagued the whole world.
• 6 accredited centers in Dubai provide the "Pfizer-Biontech" vaccine.
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