200,000 DOSES OF INDIAN MADE OXFORD VACCINES ARRIVED

  • 02/02/2021

Kuwait City : Ministry of Health (MoH) announced that 200,000 doses of the UK-based AstraZeneca with the University of Oxford vaccine against COVID-19 arrived in the country at dawn Monday. The vaccines are manufactured at the Serum Institute of India (SII).


Assistant Undersecretary for Drug and Food Control Affairs Dr. Abdullah Al-Bader has said that the ministry is closely monitoring international developments concerning the vaccines .Khaled Al-Saeed, member of the vaccine technical committee at the MoH, said the Oxford vaccine is safe for the age categories between 18 and 65.  The vaccine is effective against medium and severe infections, and  it also averts deaths.The duration between the first and second doses will be four weeks.

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