Vaccine campaign begins amid virus surge in rebel-held Syria

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A COVID-19 vaccine campaign kicked off in Syria’s last rebel-held enclave with a 45-year-old front-line nurse becoming the first to receive a U.N.-secured jab.

A health worker checks boxes of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines inside a truck, that were delivered to Idlib through a border crossing with Turkey, in Bab Al-Hawa, northwestern Syria, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. Syria's last rebel-held enclave received its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday, with a refrigerated truck offloading over 50,000 of United Nations-secured jabs in the overcrowded province.

Nizar Fattouh, a nurse in Ibn Sina Hospital in Idlib city, received one of 53,800 AstraZeneca vaccines delivered to northwest Syria through Turkey on April 21. Idlib health official Yasser Najib said the jabs were provided through the U.N.-led COVAX program for the world’s poor and developing nations.He said the vaccination campaign will last 21 working days, starting Saturday in two of the enclave’s largest hospitals. On Monday, the campaign will unfold in other health centers, Najib said.

Syria has been divided by the war so vaccinations in government-controlled areas, nearly 60% of the country’s territory, are managed and take place separately.

 

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