Syria to get first deliveries of COVAX vaccines within weeks: WHO official

A nurse prepares to administer the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine under the COVAX scheme against the coronavirus disease at the Eka Kotebe General Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Mar 13, 2021. AMMAN: Syria will take delivery within weeks of its first COVID-19 vaccines from the global vaccine sharing platform COVAX, allowing it to kick off its national inoculation programme as early as next month, the UN health agency's country head said on Wednesday .

The Damascus government's national programme across state-run territory where most of the country's nearly 20 million inhabitants live will deploy dozens of teams across 76 hospitals with over 300 mobile units to access hard to reach areas. A small batch of 5,000 doses of China's Sinopharm vaccine were the first to be delivered to Syria, outside the COVAX initiative, as a donation from China for frontline health workers, health officials say.

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