High turnout of front-line workers
Two vaccination campaigns against Corona virus were launched in Kuwait and the Sultanate of Oman
The Corona Vaccination Center in Kuwait.
EPA
Yesterday, in Kuwait and the Sultanate of Oman, two vaccination campaigns were launched against the emerging corona virus (Covid-19), and the campaign in Kuwait witnessed a heavy turnout by the medical staff and workers in the front lines. With accuracy, regularity and high skill with the large numbers of those groups that flocked to the center to take the vaccine.
The Kuwaiti Ministry of Health confirmed that yesterday was the day of the actual inauguration of the vaccination campaign against "Corona", after the pilot inauguration that was inaugurated by the Prime Minister, Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah.
The spokesman for the ministry, Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad, said that the preparation for the campaign began a long time ago, and the ministry was keen to equip the Kuwait Center for vaccination, in order to be able to provide medical care and health service according to the required quality and the appropriate level.
Yesterday, the Sultanate of Oman officially launched the national campaign of immunization against the emerging corona virus, under the slogan «Immunization Prevention».
According to the Oman News Agency, the Omani Minister of Health, Dr. Ahmed bin Muhammad Al-Saeedi, received the first dose of the "Pfizer - Biontech" anti-virus vaccine, marking the start of the campaign and confirming its safety.
Al-Saeedi expected that 28 thousand doses will reach the Sultanate during the month of January.
He pointed out that the 15,000 doses that arrived in the Sultanate last Thursday will benefit 7,000 people, indicating that a mechanism has been put in place for the vaccination process, and priorities have been set for those targeted by vaccination.
He stressed that the vaccination will include all citizens and residents in the Sultanate, but priority will be for those in the first lines of defense from the health sector and other sectors, as well as people for whom the disease "Covid-19" poses a threat to their lives from the elderly and those who have chronic diseases, especially kidney failure. And chronic breathing, indicating that the vaccination will include all citizens and residents, and it has been distributed to all governorates of the Sultanate, and it will be given according to priority.
He indicated that the Sultanate has not contracted with a single vaccination company and that it is negotiating with several companies to obtain the vaccine, in addition to the international coalition that it joined, which is managed by the World Health Organization.
The Supreme Committee in charge of examining the mechanism of dealing with developments resulting from the spread of the Coronavirus in the Sultanate of Oman decided yesterday to end the work of the decision to prevent entry to and exit from the Sultanate through various land, air and sea ports at twelve o'clock tomorrow morning.
The committee said that it decided to suspend the exemption from health isolation for those arriving on short visits to the Sultanate of less than seven days.
The committee stressed the obligation to obtain health insurance that includes coverage of the costs of treating "Covid-19", with the exception of Omanis, citizens of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries and holders of free treatment card.
And she confirmed that a "Covid-19" examination would be conducted upon arrival from abroad to the Sultanate's airports.
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