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“Despite the low number of positive cases among children, vaccination is very important due to the return of students to schools next year,” the official said during the briefing.
Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority announced free parking spaces for vaccination centres’ visitors in the Emirate. About 50 parking spaces will be available nearby each of the existing vaccination centres and any additional future centres.
The national vaccination campaign in the UAE continues to achieve its goals, as more than 78.11% of the total eligible group has been vaccinated, and they are people over the age of 16.
Federal Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Minister Asad Umar announced on Wednesday that the registration of persons aged 19 and above for vaccination against the coronavirus will start from Thursday.
Exempt groups are active COVID-19 patients, participants in vaccine clinical trials, pregnant women, recipients of a vaccine outside the country, and former COVID-19 patients following medical evaluation.
Pfizer is also anticipating the FDA will endorse use of its vaccine in even younger children sometime this fall. And results are expected by the middle of this year from a US study of Moderna’s shots in 12- to 17-year-olds.
Besides China, it is being used in the United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Hungary, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Peru, Serbia and the Seychelles, among others.
The ministry of human resources and social development said on Friday that employees will only be allowed to return to their workplace in person once vaccinated against COVID-19.
The step comes in line with the country’s vision to strengthen the national efforts in all sectors to secure the health and safety of society during the recovery phase from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The UAE health authorities said on Tuesday that the UAE population is at the top globally in the rate of receiving vaccine doses per 100 people, compared to countries whose population exceeds one million.