Kuwait City: As Kuwait is witnessing an increase in COVID-19 cases, the Ministry of health decided to ramp up its vaccination campaign with an aim to vaccinate around 10,000 people a day.
The decision to increase the number comes as Kuwait opens 25 vaccination centres, including the mobile vaccination units that are being used for those who are bedridden.
In addition, after it was revealed in January that those between the ages of 16-44 made up 67 per cent of positive cases, the Ministry of Health has started vaccinating as many people in that age group as possible.
That said, only those above the age of 18 are being administered the vaccine as studies showed that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has only been cleared for those above 18.
According to statistics published by Al Jarida newspaper, around 400,000 people have pre-registered for the vaccine and 55,000 have received the vaccine so far.
New shipment
Kuwait is expecting to receive the second shipment of the Oxford vaccine in March, which should contain around 400,000 doses.
Last month, Kuwait received 200,000 doses of the UK vaccine, making it the first shipment.
Although Kuwait began its vaccination campaign back on December 24, only the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was administered as it received FDA approval before the Oxford vaccine.
