Health Official: Coronavirus vaccines are available at 10 centers in Sulaymaniyah

Kurdistan 12:24 PM - 2021-04-12
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On Monday, the Health Protection Directorate in Sulaymaniyah announced the availability of 3 types of anti-coronavirus vaccine for health workers and citizens at 10 centers in the governorate.

 

Dr. Rizgar Ali, Director of the Health Protection Directorate, said during a televised statement that the first batch of the coronavirus vaccine that arrived in Sulaymaniyah was of the Chinese Sinopharm type, and then the governorate received a quantity of AstraZenka vaccine and yesterday night, more than 2000 doses of the American Pfizer vaccine arrived in Sulaymaniyah .

 

He explained that there are 10 health centers to distribute the anti-corona virus vaccine to citizens, calling on citizens to speed up receiving the vaccine to protect them from infection with the coronavirus.

 

He revealed that so far, more than 10 thousand people have been vaccinated in Sulaymaniyah Governorate without having any side effects, stressing that the vaccine is very important to end the threat of coronavirus, in addition to following health instructions.

 

Bestwn Rafiq, Director of the Shahid Hemin Hospital for treating people with Coronavirus, told PUKmedia earlier on Monday that their hospital received the first batch of the Pfizer anti-coronavirus vaccine, which was 1170 doses.

 

On Sunday, Iraq has received 50,000 doses of American Pfizer vaccine and 200,000 of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine.

 

Iraq has previously received 336,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and 50,000 of the Chinese-made Sinopharm and the vaccination campaign was launched through 700 outlets across the country. 

 

Iraq expects to receive 21 million and a half doses of vaccines from Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Sinopharm this month.

 

So far, Iraq has recorded over 925,000 coronavirus cases with more than 814,000 recoveries and over 14,700 deaths from the virus.

 

 

 

PUKmedia 

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