360 thousand doses are included

Yemen receives first shipment of Coronavirus vaccines

A health worker in front of a quarantine tent in Aden.

Reuters

Yesterday, Yemen received its first shipment of vaccines against the emerging corona virus (Covid-19), which is 360 thousand doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, a week after the recommendation of the Supreme National Committee to confront the Corona epidemic in Yemen to declare a "state of emergency" following the rise The number of HIV infections.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said, in a statement on its website, that the vaccines arrived in the southern city of Aden, the temporary seat of the internationally recognized government, and it is the first batch of 1.9 million doses that Yemen will initially receive during 2021.

These vaccines were shipped through the "Kovacs" mechanism, which is supported by the World Health Organization, which aims to deliver the vaccines to poor countries.

Yemen also received 13,000 vaccine storage boxes, and one million and 300,000 injections needed to start a safe and effective vaccination campaign.

The British AstraZeneca vaccines, manufactured in India, will be devoted to protecting health workers and other priority population groups at risk of contracting "Covid-19" in Yemen.

"The arrival of the first doses of the vaccine (Covid-19) represents crucial moments in the fight against the virus in Yemen," said Philip Douville, the representative of "UNICEF" in Yemen, after receiving the vaccines in Aden.

Yemen currently records about 100 daily infections with the Coronavirus, although it remained immune from the epidemic at the beginning of its outbreak as a result of its interruption of communication with the rest of the countries.

But experts estimate that the actual number of injuries is much higher than the reported figures due to a lack of tests.

The representative of the World Health Organization in Yemen, Adham Ismail, said upon receiving the vaccines in Aden: “This shipment represents an important step in combating (Covid-19) in Yemen, and it will help in efforts to save lives.”

He added, "These safe and effective vaccines will have a role in changing a lot of data, but we must, in the foreseeable future, continue to wear masks, distance physically and avoid crowds."

Finally, Doctors Without Borders warned of a "sharp increase" in the number of serious cases of "Covid-19" in Yemen, and the organization's coordinator in Yemen, Lynn Lutens, said: "Many patients we see arrive, unfortunately, in critical condition."

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vaccines were shipped through the "Kovacs" mechanism, which is supported by the World Health Organization.

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