Reservations to obtain the two doses of the vaccine through the Authority's application and the toll-free number

Dubai Health starts vaccination against (Covid-19) for basic groups within the first stage

Within the framework of the wise leadership directives to provide all the elements that guarantee its health and safety in the face of the emerging corona virus, and to accelerate the implementation of the necessary measures in this direction, the Dubai Health Authority, in coordination with the Supreme Committee for Crisis and Disaster Management in Dubai, and the Control and Control Center to combat the Corona virus A campaign of vaccination against COVID-19, "Pfizer-Biontec".

The authority has prepared a detailed plan for the steps and mechanisms of vaccination, and the target groups from the first phase that started today, 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.

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: Zabeel Health Care Center, Al-Muzhar Health Care, Wad Al Hammar Healthcare, Al Barsha Health Care, in addition to the Medical Fitness Examination Center. In Uptown Mirdif, Hatta Hospital Center.

The Dubai Health Authority revealed the first recipients of the vaccine today at the start of the vaccination campaign, namely: Ali Salem Ali Al-Adidi, a senior citizen (84 years old), and Shamaa Saif Rashid Al-Alili, from Dubai Ambulance (36 years) and Dubai Health Authority nurse Asha Sawsan Philip (45 years), Adel Hassan Shukrallah Abdullah (32 years old) from Dubai Police, and Asif Khan Fadl Subhan, driver at the Roads and Transport Authority in Dubai (37 years)

 Maintaining preventive measures

On the occasion of the start of the vaccination process, 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 besieging the virus and avoiding its transmission Among community members, she stressed the need for society to continue applying the recommended precautionary measures, including the use of masks and maintaining social distancing, even by those who have been vaccinated, in a manner that ensures the highest levels of safety for all.

The authority also confirmed that since the first moments of the emergence of the new Corona, it is facing the virus on more than one axis, most notably the prevention axis, through which it has implemented many measures and precautionary measures, and in cooperation with all concerned agencies at the state and emirate levels, starting with monitoring, surveillance, quarantine and isolation processes. Health, and through the proactive steps of the laboratory examination, which increased its capacity to reach today more than 80 thousand examinations per day.

The Dubai Health Authority indicated that the provision of an anti-Coronavirus vaccine comes within the keen interest 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 authority noted that vaccination represents an additional step of great importance in the integrated health care system, noting that it continues to develop community awareness of epidemiology, spread concepts and methods of healthy lifestyle and protect public health among people, to ward off any risks, whether related to the Coronavirus or otherwise. Other pathogens.

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 the batches and shipments of doses for the Covid-19 vaccine, which will arrive successively and in stages according to what was agreed upon with the company producing the vaccine.

Target groups

: Within its plan, Dubai Health targets four main categories of vaccination, which include the first category, 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 the third category includes workers in other vital occupations, while the fourth category concerns everyone who wants to receive the vaccine.

As for the registration procedures and booking appointments for vaccination, which will be in two doses for each person, the authority has allocated registration through two channels, namely: the Authority's application on smartphones (DHA), and the call center on the unified toll-free number (800342).

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