First batch of Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 arrives in Oman - GulfToday

VIDEO: First batch of Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 arrives in Oman

  • 24 Dec 2020

A DHL aircraft carrying the shipment landed at the Muscat airport.

Gulf Today Report

Oman received the first batch of the Pfizer vaccine shipment on Thursday evening.

The vaccine will be used against coronavirus in the Sultanate.

A DHL aircraft carrying the shipment landed at the Muscat airport.

Pharmacist Khalid Bin Ali Al-Farsi, in charge of the vaccines and stores at the Ministry of Health, said that the first batch of the Pfizer vaccine has arrived in the Sultanate, and a plan has been developed to distribute the vaccine to pre-defined centres for mass vaccination drive.

The first shipment contains around 15,600 doses. And about 28,000 more doses will arrive by January.

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