"The Ministry of Public Health and Population has announced its consent to the emergency use of the British vaccine AstraZenec and is preparing to receive the first shipment of the drug," RIA Novosti quotes a statement from the National Commission on Coronavirus.

AstraZeneca is the first coronavirus vaccine approved in Yemen.

Earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron said that he would agree to receive the vaccine for COVID-19 produced by AstraZeneca, if offered to him.