GOVERNMENT STOCKPILES VACCINES TO SPEED UP VACCINATION DRIVE

  • 26/06/2021

Kuwait City :The government is apparently keen to stock up on vaccines as it would require around 7 million doses of vaccines to provide two doses of vaccines to each of the 3.4 million people who will have to be vaccinated in order to achieve the 70 percent of population target that global health authorities recommend to achieve immunity in a community.Last Monday, the Ministry of Health (MoH) confirmed that it received the first consignment of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines via the Vaccine Alliance, formerly known as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (Gavi).


Dr. Abdullah Al-Badr, the health assistant undersecretary for pharmaceutical affairs and medical equipment at MoH, said in a statement that the shipment was the first to be taken by Kuwait through Gavi.He added that coordination is also underway to take delivery of vaccines from other platforms via Gavi soon, in line with contracts worked out by the MoH. The shipment handover is part of continuous efforts to speed up momentum of vaccinations against COVID-19 .MoH has also received approval from the Central Agency for Public Tenders to contract with Janssen Pharmaceuticals for 200,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson ( J and J) vaccine against Coronavirus.

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