Oman: Over 65s to receive Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine

Dubai: Oman will start vaccinating people aged over 65 with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as of Sunday, local media reported.

The Ministry of Health announced that the vaccination drive is as part of the national campaign which started in January.

The campaign will target the elderly in all governorates of the Sultanate, irrespective of whether they are ‘healthy’ or not. The vaccine will be given at designated vaccination centres across the country. The two-dose vaccine will be given in intervals of four weeks.

Last Saturday, the Sultanate received a total of 100,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from India where the medicine was produced at Serum Institute. Oman’s Minister of Health thanked the government of India for delivering 100,000 shots at no charge, to help with the country’s coronavirus vaccination drive.