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Footage on al-Ekhbariya TV showed a man and a woman at a medical centre in the capital, Riyadh, getting vaccinated on Thursday.
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2222 Views | the publication reaches you by | Saudi Arabia TodayTranslation: His Excellency the Minister of Health receives the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine.
Saudi Arabia received its first two shipments on Wednesday, becoming the first country in the Middle East to obtain the vaccine developed by US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and German partner BioNTech. It approved the use of the vaccine last week.
Saudi Arabian authorities asked people to register to be vaccinated via a mobile application; more than 150,000 people registered in 24 hours.
Saudi Arabia received the first two shipments on Wednesday, becoming the first in the region to obtain it [Ahmed Yosri/Reuters]Citizens aged 65 and above, professionals at higher risks of COVID-19 exposure, as well as people with immune deficiency and chronic disease will be first recipients of the vaccine.
The second round will see people aged over 50, health practitioners and those with specific chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes vaccinated.
The rest of the population will get the vaccine at the third stage, according to the health ministry.
Saudi Arabia, which has a population of some 34 million, has recorded more than 360,000 coronavirus cases, including 6,000 deaths.
Earlier this month, the United Arab Emirates launched a vaccination programme using another vaccine, Sinovac, after conducting trials with Chinese company Sinopharm.
150 take part through Watani Al Emarat via the ‘Your City Needs You’ initiative Over 150 volunteers –…
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The Arab states of the Persian Gulf are the seven Arab states which border the Persian Gulf, namely Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).This excludes the non-Arab state of Iran. All of these nations except Iraq are part of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
